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Re: Lesson #8 - Born of a Woman—Atonement and the INCARNATION
[Re: asygo]
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11/18/08 03:12 PM
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I forgot this topic was in the Quarterly!... Before raising perhaps the obvious contentious issue, there's this on Sunday's section For the purpose of the atonement it was indispensable to have God in human flesh, because only God could save us. This is a wonderful truth, but a thought comes to mind: I've been taught several times over the last two decades that the Son of God didn't die but the Son of man did because divinity can't die. How does God save us through Jesus if God's Son didn't actually die?
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Re: Lesson #8 - Born of a Woman—Atonement and the INCARNATION
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11/18/08 04:42 PM
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We know that Christ existed prior to the Incarnation. As far as I know, I don't think anybody here is disputing this.
Relative to the Incarnation, in what form and under what name or title did Christ exist prior to the Incarnation?
Also, how did the Incarnation take place? We Adventists still try to think that in his pre-existence Christ looked much like us, since he appeared to Abraham as a man and we are made in his image, which he shares with his Father - a physical and character resemblance. As for name or title, Word, Wisdom, and Son are all well known: the titles in Isaiah 9:6 are Messianic titles - including quite likely everlasting Father of the human race, as the Second Adam. Name is a significant word, since there is thinking today that even Father, Son & Holy Spirit are titles of adopted roles which are identities - just roles for the Bible's salvation project. Such allows for the potential of interchangeable titles/roles, as has been mentioned in week of prayer and Sabbath School books. Instead of adopted roles many Adventists still hold to the identities of Father, Son and Holy Spirit which is also their names. How did the incarnation take place?! I thought that's an unknown?!! Doesn't it just say that God's Spirit did it?
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Re: Lesson #8 - Born of a Woman—Atonement and the INCARNATION
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11/18/08 05:49 PM
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This isn't the quote Tom posted, but it's nice one:
Jesus said to Mary, "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father." When He closed His eyes in death upon the cross, the soul of Christ did not go at once to heaven, as many believe, or how could His words be true--"I am not yet ascended to my Father"? The spirit of Jesus slept in the tomb with His body, and did not wing its way to heaven, there to maintain a separate existence, and to look down upon the mourning disciples embalming the body from which it had taken flight. All that comprised the life and intelligence of Jesus remained with His body in the sepulcher; and when He came forth it was as a whole being; He did not have to summon His spirit from heaven. He had power to lay down His life and to take it up again (3SP 203, 204). {5BC 1150.6}
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Re: Lesson #8 - Born of a Woman—Atonement and the INCARNATION
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11/18/08 06:48 PM
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Here's another quote: Humanity died: divinity did not die. {YI, August 4, 1898 par. 1}
By God's grace, Arnold
1 John 5:11-13 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
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