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Originally Posted by shackleton  I guess I was confused in thinking that Jesus, being the second Adam, was created under the same circumstances as Adam, without the curse of sin, but in reality He was born under the law and the curse of the law with all the effects of sin; sickness and death and the miserableness of life. Being tempted just like Adam, but without,sin, He earned eternal life for us. Then being raised from the dead gained His glorified body. |
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Originally Posted by shackleton That's the point I was trying to get at. Are aging and looking older, and ultimately dying, the the curse of sin or the result of the Fall? Or, are they the natural result of life? If Christ was born without a sin nature, then would he have aged indefinatly and looked older?
If Christ did not have Adam's guilt imputed onto Him then He would not have been guilty, thus He would not have had the curse of sin, which is death. If this is the case did Christ die because He was crucified and in that death He had all our sins placed on Him thus paying for them? Or did He die because our sins were imputed onto Him and at that time making Him guilty and able to die and in His death paying for our sins?
I am probably not making sense or trying to derive too much out of it. |
I think your first quote is correct. He was born with fallen flesh. As Romans 8 states, all creation was subjected to futility by Adam's sin. While Christ did not have a sinful disposition, He still took on human flesh that was subject to the frailties of creation since Adam subjected it.
Who knows how men would have developed if not for the Fall. Biologically, infants would still be necessary because it would be impossible for a woman to birth a grown man. Maturity itself is not sinful nor is growing in wisdom and stature. At the point of physical maturation, however, I don't know if unfallen humans would have just stopped aging.
But that doesn't matter. Christ was not born with unfallen flesh. He was born to and subjected to a fallen Creation that He might be tempted in every way and yet not sin.
I'm not comfortable speculating any further.