Okay, I did a search of your posts, Mellontes, and I found your question.
It appears that you are reacting to the following statement I made:
I was suggesting that this physical dying process had not begun in Adam and Eve until they had eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Notice, I didn't speak here of the
aging process, but of the
dying process. But never mind. Assume that they are the same. What does Christ's aging have to do with anything? If Christ had not been killed, would He not have aged and eventually died? Was He not fully a human being? Or was He something other, as the gnostics believed, who stated that He stood up and gave great orations when He was a baby?
The fact that Jesus had a mortal body like everyone else in no way contradicts my statement that
Adam and Eve became subject to death when rebelled against God by disobeying His command. On the day that they ate, the death process began. Of course, the sinful nature was passed on to their progeny also. If that's what you mean by "original sin",then I agree. However, if you hold to the classical notion of "orginal sin", that is, that everone inherits the
actual sin of Adam and Eve, that all of us have in fact sinned through Adam and Eve, and are thereby guilty, I disagree.
In my understanding, Jesus not only inherited a mortal body from our first parents, Adam and Eve, but also inherited the same sinful tendency that we all inherit.
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Though Jesus had the same human nature that we all have, He always overcame temptation and never sinned, for He always trusted in His Father, and carried out His Father's will. That is what makes Him "the pioneer of our faith". It is through faith that we can overcome sin by God's grace.
If it had been impossible for Him to sin, then the fact that He didn't sin would have been required no effort or faith on His part at all. He didn't overcome because of His divine attributes. If that had been the case, He wouldn't have been the pioneer who showed us the way. He would have simply been God clothed in flesh. But He divested Himself of all His divine attributes when He became man. The only thing He retained from what He was in His pre-incarnate state was His identity as the Son of God. Without His Father, He could do nothing.
. Obviously, I couldn't explain all of this right now! At any rate, I think one or more of the "famous eschatology teachers" {I can't recall who offhand} believes about like I do.
