Isn't this a contradiction? You have:

1.He sometimes allowed His own divinity to flash through humanity.
2.He didn't do anything that we cannot do through God's grace.

We can't do 1, right? (even with God's grace)

I think Christ was tempted in all points as we are (which implies He took our human nature) and was also tempted in ways that we not (such as keeping to the level of humanity).

I thought of this quote because the statement that it was difficult for Him to keep to the level of His humanity implies (to me) that He had another option, which was to make use of His divinity. So this would mean He could have used His divine powers if He chose to.

By God's grace, His divinity can flash through our humanity. I think that's the most important way we can confess that Christ came in the flesh.

What you said was a contradiction, right?

I like that! It requires no divinity on our part other than being a mirror that reflects His love and power!

Good thoughts!

scott

No, but I should have been clearer.

1.He sometimes allowed His own divinity to flash through humanity.
2.He didn't do anything that we cannot do through God's grace.

What I meant by "He didn't do..." is that the works He did are not beyond us, if we are conduits of God's grace. Heal the sick, raise the dead, even greatly annoy the wicked by our holiness. We can do all of these things if we allow Him to do all these things through us.

Now, as to how He did these things, we might not be able to do it through the same method. Regardless, the same divine power He manifested in His life is available to us, so we can manifest the same light in our lives.

Right. We partake of His divine nature. That's as divine as we need to be.

Just repeating what I've already pointed out in previous discussions. Christ died the equivalent to the second death on the cross but, because of His innocence, wasn't consumed as the wicked will be.

"Imagine, if possible, the nature and degree of Christ's suffering. This suffering in humanity was to prevent the outpouring of the wrath of God upon those for whom Christ died. Yea; for the church this great sacrifice will be efficacious throughout eternity. Can we compute the amount of her transgressions in figures?--Impossible! Then who can approach to a conception of what Christ endured when standing as surety for his church, in the solemn hour of atonement, when he yielded up his life as a sacrificial offering? Never, never can it be that God will again so manifest his holiness, his spotless purity; the sin that sprung up in heaven and its inconceivably heinous character; his utter hatred of sin, his solemn purpose to punish it, and that in the only one who could bear the strokes in behalf of the sinner, and because of his innocence would not be consumed." {HM, November 1, 1897 par. 5}

Glad you joined the party. And thanks for the quote.

This jumped out at me, though it's off-topic: this great sacrifice will be efficacious throughout eternity.

Efficacious throughout eternity. Does that mean that we will be under the "umbrella" of His sacrifice forever? How does this impact the "living without a Mediator" concept? Just thinking through my keyboard.

You say that Christ sometimes allowed His own divinity to flash through humanity, and Christ did nothing we cannot do by God's grace. Given this (allowing His own divinity to flash through humanity) is not a contradiction, either this is something Christ didn't do, or it's something we can do. But you just said He did it, so the only possibility is that it is something we can do too. But clearly we cannot allow our own divinity to flash through our humanity. So if Christ did nothing different than we can do, it was not His own divinity that flashed through His humanity, but God's. Unless you were thinking that Christ's divinity is the same as God's, so you used the term "His own divinity" interchangeably with "God's divinity". Is this what you had in mind?



How would the method be different?



I agree with this.