Um, He's God.
Jesus was made like his brethren in every respect. (Hebrews 2:17-18)
Jesus was tempted like we are, God is never tempted.
So how was Jesus able to overcome his temptations?
IMO, those who cannot summarize a Bible chapter effectively,If God had wanted Romans 6 summed up in 2 Sentences, I'm pretty sure He would have had it written that way.
IMO, those who cannot summarize a Bible chapter effectively,
do not clearly understand what it is saying ... and instead
they choose to confuse people with endless unnecessary words!
I have no interest in your long commentaries, and am not reading them.
Jesus did not have our sin nature,What enabled Jesus to be perfect?
God will judge (1 Pe 1:17, 2:23). Does that make him unloving? :dizzy: God will condemn men to hell (Matt. 25:46). Does that make him unjust? :hammer:...Love does not Judge! Love does not condemn!
:listen: Some people aren't interested in God's love, Pollyanna (Re 22:11). Each man gets a choice to accept him or reject him....By simply believing in the unconditional Love of God, we are changed from selfish, hateful people to Loving people that become extensions of God's Love to all...
Yes, it's all about this.If you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God (Ro 8:13–14).
Jesus was made like his brethren in every respect. (Hebrews 2:17-18)
Jesus was tempted like we are, God is never tempted.
So how was Jesus able to overcome his temptations?
God will judge (1 Pe 1:17, 2:23). Does that make him unloving? :dizzy: God will condemn men to hell (Matt. 25:46). Does that make him unjust? :hammer:
:listen: Some people aren't interested in God's love, Pollyanna (Re 22:11). Each man gets a choice to accept him or reject him.
God doesn't need us. We need him.
If you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God (Ro 8:13–14).
Jesus overcame through the Father.
It is very easy to claim that everyone except you
reads/teaches the Bible carnally, isn't it?
Wouldn't it be a good idea to prove it?
How about a 2-sentence summary of Romans 6 for our edification?
Many speak as I do.
Why must I do so with another scripture, when you don't see what I have said about the very one you just posted?
I will do this one thing for you, and you will turn and rend me, but I will speak here once more.
IMO, those who cannot summarize a Bible chapter effectively,
do not clearly understand what it is saying ... and instead
they choose to confuse people with endless unnecessary words!
I have no interest in your long commentaries, and am not reading them.
Jamie,
Those temptations were on a universal scale.
Jesus overcame through the Father.
We overcome through Jesus's overcoming. We do not become incorruptible while alive in this kingdom of Dust.
1st Corinthians 15 is my proof.
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Yes, Jesus overcame his temptations by the power of the Holy Spirit and we are expected to do the same. (Hebrews 9:14)
Let us go on to perfection... (Hebrews 6:1)
Yes, Jesus overcame his temptations by the power of the Holy Spirit and we are expected to do the same. (Hebrews 9:14)
Let us go on to perfection... (Hebrews 6:1)
Jamie,
Trying to be perfect as Jesus was perfect, in these corrupt and corruptible bodies, is like rolling a turd in chocolate. [emoji85][emoji33][emoji23][emoji90][emoji88]
On the initial licking of the outside, things may taste sweet, but once a person takes a bite, they'll instantly know the truth. [emoji32][emoji90] : puke :
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Trying to be perfect as Jesus was perfect, in these corrupt and corruptible bodies...
Perfection......
Psalms 18:32
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
Phillipians 3
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:15
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Luke 11:13
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Excellent scriptures. Are we to say that we become sinless like Jesus before death, or His return?
Excellent scriptures. Are we to say that we become sinless like Jesus before death, or His return?
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Five of the ten virgins were wise, five were foolish.
While the foolish went out to buy oil the bridegroom came and the door was shut.