Did Jesus have a sin nature as the Christadelphians teach?
Yes the MAN Jesus the Christ DID have sin nature just like the rest of mankind and it is one of the easiest things to prove in the Bible.
Just a few verses: "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh. God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned SIN IN THE FLESH" (Rom 8:3).
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. James 1:13
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone…Mark 10:18
saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” luke 22:42
THE LOGIC: working backwards through these verses, the prayer in the garden of gethsemane is a huge indication that although they had the same plan and purpose, God (Yahweh, LORD) and his human son Jesus (Emannuel, the Christ, Lord) were two different people, Jesus had a very different desire and will than God did in the instance" remove this cup from me, but not by my will, only let your will be done".
This comes out so often in the scriptures that Jesus had to "learn and GROW in stature and wisdom", that he was not "co-equal" as the doctrine of the trinity falsely teaches…Jesus had every desire to live up to his calling and fulfill his Father’s plan and purpose but he had to do so by working through the sin nature that he was born with. The only way we could have a mediator who truly knew our trials and hardships would be for him to have gone through it all himself, otherwise it’d just be a joke…all show and no substance…by Christ actually having the same sin nature it gives the rightful honor to how amazing his life and sacrifice were…the way the trinity teaches he was God just in human form COMPLETELY takes away from what Jesus had to go through and its such an insult to the agony Jesus worked through and the patience Yahweh had to have had in order to allow it to happen.
Jesus rebukes the man who calls him good and corrects him because even if he hadnt sinned yet he still had the potential to and wasnt any better than anyone else, so he makes the distinction, call no man good, only God is good.
and if we know we have a righteous merciful Heavenly Father who CAN NOT be tempted…but yet it says Christ was in all ways tempted just like us, then how can u say he was God….all four of the gospels record Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness immediately after his baptism…why wold it say that and described what he went through in such detail if it wasnt actually any temptation at all…the whole reason Jesus deserves glory is because he did have all the same stesses and sinful thoughts wearing him down but he overcame but intense study, prayer and reliance on God to help him overcome and triumph! along the way setting a blueprint and example for us.
And Matt Slick and CARM can continue to spread lies about the Christadelphian faith all they want, its not man who judges but GOD.
by Matt Slick No, Jesus did not have a sin nature. However, that has not stopped the Christadelphians from teaching He did. This is not surprising considering they deny the doctrine of the Trinity and the deity of Jesus. As with all non-Christian cults that deny the true doctrine of God, other doctrines necessarily become incorrect as well. In this case, their error is that Jesus has a sin nature. “Therefore, we conclude that it is not only that Jesus was called a sinner at his trial by his enemies or that he was ‘numbered with the transgressors’ when he was crucified between two thieves, but more particularly that he shared the very nature which had made a sinner out of ever other man who had borne it. It is for this reason that the nature we bear is called “sinful flesh” or more briefly, ‘sin’ (Rom. 7:20 and 8:4).”1 “And it was for that very reason — being a member of a sinful race — that the Lord Jesus himself needed salvation… But it is equally true that, being ‘made sin for us
