Ivor J. Davidson, a Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand, compares the sinlessness of Jesus Christ from a biblical viewpoint by providing a clarification of the moral characteristics found in Jesus Christ. In addition, this particular article provides a set of questions, that answers the modernism, idealism, contemporanism, and liberalism ideologies. In this article, Davidson describes the Sinlessness of Christ with the following statement: “To reduce the matter of Jesus' morality to something that must be comprehensible by analogy with our own experience of being human is to posit a figure whose otherness is quantitative rather than qualitative, and such a one is dubiously equipped
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McFarland, currently appointment as a Professor in Candler School of Theology, Bishops Hall, Atlanta, GA has a compromise view. McFarland, compares two terms “fallenness and sinfulness” as properties to defend the position that Christ took a fallen nature as presumes Heb. 4:15. “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet he did not sin.” The author, provides a peculiar viewpoint contrasting the human will and the doctrine of original sin associated with Augustinian interpretation of original sin. Therefore, this article is relevant to my topic, because, allows a clear distinction for the argument of Christ fallen or unfallen human nature. McFarland said, “Even as nature and hypostasis are ontologically incommensurable categories, so are sinfulness and fallenness.” There is probably more misunderstanding about these two terms than any other in this generation. The Bible, however, is very clear. A key passage that brings clarity to the subject is found in Romans 5: 12-17. Here one understands that “sin entered the world through one man (Adam), and death through sin – after Adam every human experience death – and this is the reason humans die, because all sinned” (Romans 5: 12). However, Jesus was born free from sin, and He lived his entire life without …show more content…
Kapic is a professor of Biblical and Theological Studies Department at Covenant Collage, Lookout Mountain, GA. Kapic, in the article “The Son’s Assumption of a Human Nature: A Call for Clarity,” he compares two Christian position that has earned a large discussion, became convinced that Christ either came with a fallen or unfallen human nature. A substantial number of questions are answered here relevant to the sinlessness of Christ. In this article, Kapic describes “the unique birth of Jesus as the means for maintaining both continuity and discontinuity between the humanity of Christ and fallen humanity; because of the Spirit Jesus is uniquely conceived in such a way as to be free from inherited guilt and sin.” As one look at this quote, one is aware that not only was free from original sin, but His sacrifice on the cross was enough to accomplish one’s
McFarland, currently appointment as a Professor in Candler School of Theology, Bishops Hall, Atlanta, GA has a compromise view. McFarland, compares two terms “fallenness and sinfulness” as properties to defend the position that Christ took a fallen nature as presumes Heb. 4:15. “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet he did not sin.” The author, provides a peculiar viewpoint contrasting the human will and the doctrine of original sin associated with Augustinian interpretation of original sin. Therefore, this article is relevant to my topic, because, allows a clear distinction for the argument of Christ fallen or unfallen human nature. McFarland said, “Even as nature and hypostasis are ontologically incommensurable categories, so are sinfulness and fallenness.” There is probably more misunderstanding about these two terms than any other in this generation. The Bible, however, is very clear. A key passage that brings clarity to the subject is found in Romans 5: 12-17. Here one understands that “sin entered the world through one man (Adam), and death through sin – after Adam every human experience death – and this is the reason humans die, because all sinned” (Romans 5: 12). However, Jesus was born free from sin, and He lived his entire life without …show more content…
Kapic is a professor of Biblical and Theological Studies Department at Covenant Collage, Lookout Mountain, GA. Kapic, in the article “The Son’s Assumption of a Human Nature: A Call for Clarity,” he compares two Christian position that has earned a large discussion, became convinced that Christ either came with a fallen or unfallen human nature. A substantial number of questions are answered here relevant to the sinlessness of Christ. In this article, Kapic describes “the unique birth of Jesus as the means for maintaining both continuity and discontinuity between the humanity of Christ and fallen humanity; because of the Spirit Jesus is uniquely conceived in such a way as to be free from inherited guilt and sin.” As one look at this quote, one is aware that not only was free from original sin, but His sacrifice on the cross was enough to accomplish one’s