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Bible Questions Answered:
“Did
Jesus take upon himself the nature of satan, I'm talking about 2
Corinthians 5:21...?”
Jason/ Cedar Rapids. Iowa U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
There is a group that teaches this, and it is absolutely
false!
II
Corinthians 5:21 KJV
For
He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might
be made the righteousness of God in Him.
II
Corinthians 5:21 NLT
For
God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering*
for our sin, so that we could be made right with God
through Christ.
*
Propitiation:
An atoning sacrifice.
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The Divine life of our Lord, does not, cannot change!
Malachi
3:6 KJV
For
I am The Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not
consumed.
Hebrews
1:10-12 KJV
10
And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the
earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
11
They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as
doth a garment;
12
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed:
but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Hebrews
13:8 KJV
Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
See the blog postings.....
The
Nature Of The Lord Jesus:
Leviticus
11:44 KJV
For
I am The Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and
ye shall be holy; for I am holy..."
Leviticus
19:2 KJV
Speak
unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto
them, Ye shall be holy: for I The Lord your God am holy.
Leviticus
20:26 KJV
And
ye shall be holy unto Me: for I The Lord am holy, and have severed
you from other people, that ye should be Mine.
I
Peter 1:15,16 KJV
15
But as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner
of conversation;
16
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
I
Peter 2:21,22 NLT
21
For God called you to do good, even if it means suffering, just as
Christ suffered for you. He is your example, and you must follow in
His steps.
22
He never sinned, nor ever deceived anyone.
Revelation
4:8 NLT
"...Day
after day and night after night they keep on saying,
“Holy,
holy, holy is The Lord God, The Almighty— the one who always was,
who is, and who is still to come.”
Though Jesus never sinned, He took upon Himself , the
curse of (our) sin, to take our place in judgment.
II
Corinthians 5:21 NLT
For
God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering*
for our sin, so that we could be made right with God
through Christ.
*
Propitiation:
An atoning sacrifice.
Merriam-Webster.Com
He became our “sacrifice,” for sin.
Sacrifice:
An act of offering to God something precious.
Sacrifice:
The act of offering something to God in propitiation or
homage, especially the ritual slaughter of an animal
TheFreeDictionary.Com
Substitutionary sacrifice was initiated in Old Testament times, for the sins of Israel.
Leviticus
4:3,23 KJV
"...the high priest...must present to The Lord a young bull
with no defects. (verse 23 male goat with no defects/ verse 32
female sheep with no defects.)
Leviticus
4:24,33 NLT
4 He (the
priest) must bring the bull to The Lord at the entrance of the
Tabernacle, lay his hand on the bull’s head, and slaughter it
before The Lord.
24 He must
lay his hand on the goat’s head and slaughter it at the place where
burnt offerings are slaughtered before The Lord. This is an offering
for his sin.
33 They
must lay a hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at
the place where burnt offerings are slaughtered.
This
was a symbolic gesture of transferring the sins of the people to the
sacrificial animal.
Impute:
Theology.
to attribute (righteousness, guilt, etc.) to a person or persons
vicariously; ascribe as derived from another.
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The
animal did not become sin, rather it became a sacrificial substitute.
The
Lord Jesus Christ, The Lamb Of God,
I Peter
1:18,19 KJV
18 Forasmuch as ye know
that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and
gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your
fathers;
19 But with The Precious Blood Of Christ, as of A Lamb without
blemish and without spot:
The sinless Lord Jesus, became our sacrificial Lamb,
taking upon Himself the sins of the world.
Prayer:
II
Corinthians 5:21 NLT
For
God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so
that we could be made right with God through Christ.
