Gustave Posted Tuesday at 05:34 PM Posted Tuesday at 05:34 PM You are confounding Person with Nature. Natures don't commit sin, person's do. Jesus did not possess a human person separate from His Divine Person. Because Jesus is ONE PERSON (not two) - for Jesus to sin GOD would sin. I shouldn't have to break this down as to why it's wrong and alien to what the Bible clearly says about God. Sacred Scripture states that the efficacy of Christ's atonement was dependent on Christ's sinlessness, NOT his potential to not be God - and this is where the conditional creature-christ doctrine ALWAYS goes. To claim what God said WOULD HAPPEN was in reality an undetermined outcome reduces the Almighty (Father, Son & Holy Spirit) to a simple bystander hoping the whole thing doesn't end up on an episode of Gilligan's Island. You claim that if Jesus couldn't sin, His temptations were meaningless. But consider this: A boulder hit by a battering ram feels the full impact of the force even if it doesn't break. In fact, because Jesus never gave in, He bore the maximum possible pressure of temptation—far more than any fallen human who surrenders early. He sympathizes with our weakness (Hebrews 4:15) because He felt the full force of the test, not because He was in danger of destruction which Ellen White militantly gloated about. Additionally, the idea that the Son of God was on 'probation' with an outcome 'undetermined' undermines and repudiates the sovereignty of God. Christ came as the 'Lamb slain from the foundation of the world' (Rev 13:8). God’s plan of salvation was an absolute, guaranteed triumph rooted in His divine nature and covenant promise, not a high-stakes gamble where God Himself could cease to exist. A Savior who could eternally perish is a created, finite being—which is precisely the error of Arius. Quote
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