Could Jesus Christ Sin?

Creation date: 4-Jul-2024
Did Jesus Christ inherit human-beings Fallen Nature?

Last updated: 13-Dec-2024
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1 Summary
2 The Temptations in the Scriptures
3 Could Jesus Christ Commit a Sin, and did He Inherit the Fallen Nature?

Summary

Jesus Christ is God with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit in Eternity.  When He entered His Creation as:

He was always God and knew He Was God.  He has:

  1. No weakness to succumb into sinning, and
  2. Does not have the ability to sin because He is Perfect as God.
  3. When entering His Creation and taking on a human body, He did not require learning and maturing.

The temptations presented to Jesus Christ were understood by Jesus Christ but it was impossible for them to have any power over Jesus Christ because He is God.  When we read about the temptations that came against Him, the temptations were absolutely real and had power because of Jesus Christ's:

The Temptations in the Scriptures

Jesus Christ in the scriptures has many references of having temptation being presented to him.  Part of the temptations was the:
  1. Teasing of Him as a child.
  2. Calling Him a Bastard (man without a known father).
  3. Mockery against Him,
  4. He felt stressed and alone with the weight of His Mission before the final week before the Crucifixion.
  5. False judgments against Him,
  6. The scourging by fists and whips.
  7. Death on a Cross

where Jesus Christ could have done anything to avenge Himself.  Here is a partial list of the direct references, but there is many more.

Matthew 4:1-11

(Also in Luke 4:1-13)

 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of Lucifer. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered. 3 And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and saith unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written,

He shall give his angels charge concerning thee:

and,

On their hands they shall bear thee up,
Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.

7 Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God. 8 Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 and he said unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 11 Then the devil leaveth him; and behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
Mark 1:12-13 12 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. 13 And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Lucifer. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.
Mark 14:32-42

Stress before the Crucifixion

 32 And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. 34 And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.” 35 And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.

36 And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” 37 And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

39 And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. 40 And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him. 41 And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”
Mark 27:16 16 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. 17 And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.
Hebrews 4:15-16 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Could Jesus Christ Commit a Sin, and did He Inherit the Fallen Nature?

It was impossible for Jesus Christ, when on the Earth, to commit a sin as He did not have a sin nature.  Jesus Christ preexisted His birth from Mary, and was God in Eternity past, God as He walked on Earth, and is God for Eternity future. 

Note that Mary was the chosen vessel and mother of delivery, which has honor (2 John 1:1-2) and nothing more.  

The fascinating question often asked about Jesus Christ is:

"Could Jesus Christ commit any sinful act because He inherited the Fallen Nature of Human Beings?"

The answer is absolutely not.  Jesus Christ did not inherit the Fallen Nature, called Original Sin, and could not commit any sin for the following reasons:

  1. Jesus Christ is not a human-being like all of us with a Fallen Nature, called Original Sin.
  2. Jesus Christ is 100% a human-being because He came through the birth process of a human-being mother, but without Original Sin that comes through the seed of the father, where Jesus Christ did not have a human-being father.
  3. The Holy Spirit with God the Father, created a human-being baby in the womb of Mary that Jesus Christ was to indwell.  God in Genesis 2:7 formed a man out of the dust of the ground and breathed life into the man.  Jesus Christ has many titles where one is the Son of Man. 
    (a) The pattern of Adam, which Jesus Christ fulfilled, is Jesus Christ so loved the world that Jesus Christ joined us in our sin and outcast predicament for a restitution payment that required Jesus Christ to be perfect and without a single sin in His live.
    (b) Adam loved Eve and joined her after she was deceived.  Adam was not deceived by the deception of Lucifer in the snake.  Adam's action was a model of Jesus Christ who joined our world that was destined to be separated from God to make a restitution payment for ours sins. 
    (c) Jesus did not have any sin from the moment of entering the womb of Mary until His death at the Crucifixion.
    Luke 1:35 And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
    Genesis 2:7 then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
    1 Corinthians 15:45-47  45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
    Romans 5:14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed.  He is a pattern of the One to come.
  4. Jesus Christ has a Divine Nature because of the Incarnation through the process of coming from Eternity as part of the Triune God
    (a) God The Father,
    (b) God the Son, Jesus Christ, and
    (c) God the Holy Spirit.
  5. The two natures of Jesus Christ had the ability to understand our temptations and all of the evil inclinations of all the human-beings that came from Adam and Eve after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden from eating the Forbidden Fruit.
  6. Unlike the descendents of Adam and Eve, the birth of Jesus Christ because of the pregnancy (without sexual intercourse to conceive) had Jesus Christ born without the sin nature we all have that is called "Original Sin".
  7. Jesus Christ is called the the Last Adam, which is more than a simple title. 
    (a) The first Adam was a direct creation by God, without a mother, where the first Adam, and then Eve created from Adam's rib and the dust of the Earth, did not have the sin nature until after eating of the Forbidden Fruit. 
    (b) Eve, who was deceived into believing the statements of Lucifer speaking through the serpent.  The acting on the deception and believing the untruth was the sin being committed. 
    (c) Adam, was not deceived according to the scriptures but so loved Eve that he joined Eve in her predicament.  If Adam had not joined Eve then there would not have been offspring and a method provided by God to fix the transgression and separation from God.  Note that Adam and Eve were clothed in light that Adam must have seen the light being removed after the sin where that is additional proof of Adam's great love for Eve to join her in her predicament.
    (d) Jesus Christ enterer into His own Creation to join us and provide us a way to escape the separation from God.
  8. When we go into Eternity with God, we will receive our new glorified bodies at the Judgment Seat of Christ where our bodies are based on rewards for five areas of living righteously.  A human-being's bodies does not mean we are sinners, but the sin nature that is inherited from our parents, will not be part of our future eternal bodies when we are with God in Eternity future.

    This is an excerpt from the Rewards in Heaven topic:

    Everything done through faith that:

    1. Developed our relationship with God during our life,
    2. Activities in God's Service,
    3. Faithfulness to the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
    4. Righteously suffering, and
    5. Overcoming sinful areas and obstacles in life through the Holy Spirit.

    will contribute to rewards in Heaven that includes our new glorified bodies.

    1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

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