Post by ResLight on Jun 15, 2014 20:21:57 GMT -5
The question has been asked: If Jesus had never been crucified, would he have never grown old and died an old man?
Jesus came for the very purpose of sacrificing his flesh, thus, he came to suffer and die; he did not come to live forever as a human being. (John 6:51; Hebrews 10:5,10; 1 John 4:9,10; 2 John 1:7) "IF" he had come to live forever as a human being, then, if he never sinned, he would still be alive to day as a human being, even as Adam would still be alive today if he had never sinned. It is only because of sin that Adam came under any sentence of dying. In Jesus' case, however, it was different, in that Jesus came to pay the condemnation that had come upon Adam, and through Adam, upon the whole world of mankind, thus lifting the condmenation from Adam and the whole world that is dying in Adam, so that all who are dying in Adam may be made alive, either reckoned so in this age through faith in Jesus' blood (which results in the resurrection of life in the age to come), or by being raised in the resurrection of judgment in the age to come. The offsetting price of Jesus' death as a sinless human provides for two resurrections: a resurrection of those who have been justified in this age, as well as a resurrection of those who have not been justified in this age. -- John 5:28,29; Acts 24:15.
Jesus came for the very purpose of sacrificing his flesh, thus, he came to suffer and die; he did not come to live forever as a human being. (John 6:51; Hebrews 10:5,10; 1 John 4:9,10; 2 John 1:7) "IF" he had come to live forever as a human being, then, if he never sinned, he would still be alive to day as a human being, even as Adam would still be alive today if he had never sinned. It is only because of sin that Adam came under any sentence of dying. In Jesus' case, however, it was different, in that Jesus came to pay the condemnation that had come upon Adam, and through Adam, upon the whole world of mankind, thus lifting the condmenation from Adam and the whole world that is dying in Adam, so that all who are dying in Adam may be made alive, either reckoned so in this age through faith in Jesus' blood (which results in the resurrection of life in the age to come), or by being raised in the resurrection of judgment in the age to come. The offsetting price of Jesus' death as a sinless human provides for two resurrections: a resurrection of those who have been justified in this age, as well as a resurrection of those who have not been justified in this age. -- John 5:28,29; Acts 24:15.
