Tirian
Puritan Board Sophomore
I've read the various threads on Christ's DNA etc and I am unsatisfied (in my own thinking) with the notion that sin-nature is only passed by the father as some have suggested - and seeing as Christ has not a human father His human nature was not corrupted.
Just doesn't seem like a complete answer.
However it got me thinking "what is human nature" or more specifically, when we speak of Christ having two natures, what do we mean by His human nature? Does human nature = soul? Did Christ have a soul in the way we do?
His (Christ's) human nature was created - but if He had a soul surely that was/is eternal? What is going on during ordinary conception aside from the sperm and the egg creating a body? (I've always assumed our eternal souls are united with our bodies at that point) and so in the imputation of Adam's sin to us, that soul is corrupted. In the case of Jesus, His (human nature/soul/something else) was not corrupted.
Any thoughts?
Just doesn't seem like a complete answer.
However it got me thinking "what is human nature" or more specifically, when we speak of Christ having two natures, what do we mean by His human nature? Does human nature = soul? Did Christ have a soul in the way we do?
His (Christ's) human nature was created - but if He had a soul surely that was/is eternal? What is going on during ordinary conception aside from the sperm and the egg creating a body? (I've always assumed our eternal souls are united with our bodies at that point) and so in the imputation of Adam's sin to us, that soul is corrupted. In the case of Jesus, His (human nature/soul/something else) was not corrupted.
Any thoughts?