Category Archives: Christology

Did Jesus Inherit A Fallen Nature?

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Transcript from a panel discussion at the 2010 West Coast Ligonier Conference, Christless Christianity:

Questioner (Chris Larson): Doctor Sproul, if Jesus is 100% human and tempted in every way we were, does that mean he inherited a fallen nature from the fall?

R.C. Sproul: No.

Chris Larson: Could you elaborate?

[laughter]

R.C. Sproul: The first place is that Jesus is not 100% human. His human nature is 100% human. But He also has a divine nature which is 100% divine. Okay, so He has two natures, one person. Let’s start there. But the question really is getting at, if He’s in his human nature, 100% human, wouldn’t that necessitate that He’d be born with original sin? That’s what the question is, isn’t it? Because all human beings, after Adam, are born in that condition. This is the second half. And Adam was 100% human before he fell. And we will be 100% human in heaven without sin. So, sin is not a necessary condition for humanness. It is the universal condition of Fallen Humanity. No question about that. But Jesus came into the world without original sin and lived the life of perfect obedience, which was the foundation for the righteousness that is imputed to us in our justification. This is one of the things scares me to death in this whole thing that we’re going through now is the assault on the perfect active obedience of Jesus. It’s coming out of certain evangelical quarters. We have evangelical professors and evangelical institutions attacking the idea of Christ’s perfect active obedience. That’s a disaster to biblical Christianity. I hope I’ve answered the question. Jesus could have a pure perfect humanity without original sin.

Taken from the 30:00 mark here:

The Job of the Pastor

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Paul Washer in his interview entitled “The Preeminent Christ” Transcript excerpt from the 30:44 mark (slightly edited):

In Job 28, there’s a story about the miner who goes down into these dangerous pits and swings on a rope in darkness. He turns over mountains, he dams up rivers, everything he does to get this precious jewel and bring it to the surface. That’s the pastor’s study.

You see, one of the reasons I wrote this book, I write for the mechanic and the homeschool mom.

Why?

Whenever I don’t want to go to my study because I’m tired. I’m not just studying for me, I’m studying for that mechanic who works 12 hours a day and doesn’t have the library and doesn’t have the time. So I can go into that mine, I can study and study and study to bring out this jewel and hand it to him, the mechanic, hand it to the housewife. Do you see?

So that’s why pastors need to stop running around so much.


And they need to go into their study, but they go in there to find jewels, to find gold, to find things that that people who love Jesus very much, but they’re having to work all day in the world. He needs to go in there and bring that out for them.

You can call it food, you can bring, you can, you can call it another bracelet on the arm. When the servant was bringing back the wife for Isaac, you know, every, I believe that probably every time as they were going day after day, making that journey, he looked back and see the doubt in her eyes. He put another bracelet on her arms, says, no, no, no, He’s gonna be worth it, or maybe they stop at a well, and all of a sudden she looks over and there’s a young man drawing water and he’s a very attractive young man. And that servant brings out another bracelet and says, no, no, no, no, no, wait. He’s worth it. That to me is the job of the pastor. And that’s why I write the way I do in this book – it’s going into that well and bringing out this and say, look at Him. Look at Him. Mechanic housewife, homeschool mom, look at Him. Keep going. He’s worth it. He’s worth it.

Jesus is God (Church Fathers)

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One of the many false claims out there today is that the Emperor Constantine invented the idea of the Deity of Christ in order to unite the Empire and introduced the concept at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. There is not a shred of truth to that claim. Not only do the Scriptures say otherwise, but so do the early Church fathers: Here are some quotes (of many that could be cited):

1) Polycarp (69-155) “yet believe in our Lord and God Jesus”

2) Ignatius (50-117) “by the will of the Father and of Jesus Christ our God”, also “once you took on new life through the blood of God”

3) Justin Martyr (100-165) “prove that Christ is called both God and Lord of hosts”

4) Melito of Sardis (died 180) “because they slew God, who hung naked on the tree”

5) Irenaeus of Lyons (130-202) “He is Himself God, and Lord, and King Eternal”

6) Clement of Alexandria (150-215) “He alone being both, both God and man”

7) Tertullian (150-225) “For God alone is without sin; and the only man without sin is Christ, since Christ is also God.”

8 ) Origen (AD 185-254) – “while made a man remained the God which He was.”

For the sources of these quotes:

https://www.str.org/w/nine-early-church-fathers-who-taught-jesus-is-god?