I take it you don't think the following apply to Christ's experience:
a) Grace
b) Having the law written in the heart.

I'm guessing you either don't think Christ overcame by faith, as we do (instead He overcame as unfallen Adam could have), or you don't see any difference in overcoming by faith for unfallen Adam and ourselves.

In short, you seem to see Christ's experience as very different from ours. The only similarities would be that Christ had a physical body somewhat like ours (in that it could become tired, for example) and He could be tempted from some external source, such as Satan or an agent of his (like Adam, before his fall).

Yes, Christ wasn't really under the salvivic covenant of Abraham, since he is Saviour, but since he is the Son of man, he did live under it's terms, since he was born of a woman, born under the law.

Christ's merits are the work of God, but woven in human equipment - character: Jesus had to perform a righteous redemption of this world, with its salvation as the reward for him on completion. That's a contract with his Father, since before our Genesis history. Yes, no scope for falling to temptation, but even that performance used all the gifts of God to us, didn't it?

T:I take it you don't think the following apply to Christ's experience:
a) Grace
b) Having the law written in the heart.

R:The core of the new covenant is saving grace and heart renewal, with the law written in it. I don't think these apply to Christ.

T:I'm guessing you either don't think Christ overcame by faith, as we do (instead He overcame as unfallen Adam could have), or you don't see any difference in overcoming by faith for unfallen Adam and ourselves.

R:Of course Christ overcame by faith. What exactly is the difference you see between unfallen Adam and us in this respect?

T:In short, you seem to see Christ's experience as very different from ours. The only similarities would be that Christ had a physical body somewhat like ours (in that it could become tired, for example) and He could be tempted from some external source, such as Satan or an agent of his (like Adam, before his fall).

R:What I believe is that Christ, differently from us, couldn't be tempted by the evil of His own heart.

1. Concerning the meaning of the term, “under the law,” you say that you have shown that “it does not always mean under the condemnation of the law, but rather under the authority of the law, or under obligation to keep the law.” I have carefully reread all previous references to it, and while I find several assertions to that effect, I find not one item of proof.

To be sure you quote from Greenfield, but I don’t consider his assertion as of any more value than that of any other man. I cannot take the space here to quote all the occurrences of the term, “under the law,” and show its meaning; but I wish to make this point: In Romans 6:14, 15, and Galatians 5:18, the expression occurs, and there cannot be the slightest doubt but that it means “condemned by the law.” You would not dare give it the meaning, “subject to the law,” in those places. There can be no controversy concerning its use in those texts.

Now it is a fixed principle in biblical interpretation that controverted texts must be settled by appeal to texts which are uncontroverted. Moreover, consistency requires that any term should have the same meaning wherever it occurs in the Bible, unless the context shows beyond question that it must have a different meaning.

Now there is no place in the Bible where it does not make good sense to interpret “under the law” as “condemned by the law.” But in the texts which I have just referred to, it cannot possibly mean “subject to the law.” If the limits of this review would warrant it, I would show by positive evidence from Scripture, and not by quotations from commentaries; that “under the law” invariably means “condemned by the law,” and that it cannot by any possibility mean anything else. Of course I except the two places, 1 Corinthians 9:21 and Romans 3:19, where it is not found in the original.

T:I take it you don't think the following apply to Christ's experience:
a) Grace
b) Having the law written in the heart.

R:The core of the new covenant is saving grace and heart renewal, with the law written in it. I don't think these apply to Christ.

T: Ok, so you agreed with my characterization of your thought.

T:In short, you seem to see Christ's experience as very different from ours. The only similarities would be that Christ had a physical body somewhat like ours (in that it could become tired, for example) and He could be tempted from some external source, such as Satan or an agent of his (like Adam, before his fall).

R:What I believe is that Christ, differently from us, couldn't be tempted by the evil of His own heart.

T: Do you disagree in any way with my characterization of your thought? If you agree, you can just say so. If you disagree, please point out some are of disagreement. Do you believe Christ could be tempted in any way other than by an external source, such as Satan or an agent of his?