The Humanity of Christ: Part 22 - A Human Nature Is Not A Sin Nature

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While Jesus was one hundred percent human does not necessitate Him possessing a sin nature.  When God created humanity, they did not possess a sin nature.  A sin nature was inherited at the time of the Fall.  Because Adam sinned as the head or representative of the human race, the sin nature is passed down through the male progenitor.

• Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned— - Romans 5:12  

That Jesus was virgin born guarantees that He did not inherit a sin nature.  Furthermore, Jesus is still one hundred percent God.  Thus, Christ has two natures — one human and one divine.  These two natures are intertwined in one Person, the God-man.  These two natures cannot be separated.  They are forever fused.  

Jesus’ divine nature cannot sin.  First, Jesus is immutable; that is, He does not change.

• Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. - Hebrews 13:8 

Second, Jesus is omnipotent or all powerful.  

• And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. - Hebrews 1:3a
  

The ability to sin would imply that Jesus is powerless against temptation.  Third, Jesus is omniscient.

• and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man. - John 2:25  

Sin is deceptive.  For sin to be deceptive, one would have to be ignorant of truth or facts.  Jesus is all-knowing means Jesus cannot be  deceived by sin.  Since Jesus’s divine nature is not able to sin, so His human nature is not able to sin.