Sin nature

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Austin

Well Mike as always your view is always the right view and you'll make sure that point is brought across, especially with those who disagree with other teachings of yours. And you can see that in the verbiage. If it could it would jump out and hit me.
I still maintain that Adam was not perfect, and there is no comparison with Adam and jesus. If Adam was like Jesus then he would not have yielded to temptation, or should I say, to something he knew was obvious wrong.
Adam was made exactly the way God intended him to be.
Doesn't God have foreknowledge of all things? If so did he not know what Adam and Eve were going to do? Then if he did, why didn't he make them more perfect, or give them power to overcome this thing, or even forward them that is was about to happen.
This entire debate is nothing more or less than personal theology.
Yes god created mankind in his likeness and in his image. Likeness and image both could reflect each other. It could mean in appearance and and have some of the same attributes as god has. For instance, a creative will.
If you want to maintain your perspective in this issue that's fine with me, but I don't view theology with confidence.

Adam and Jesus both had a human nature. They both had free will as preordained in the foreknowledge of God. Yet Jesus is different... Jesus had the absolute fullness of the divine nature. Adam didn't. Thus Adam could choose to sin. For Jesus, it would be against His very nature to do so. And glory to God... we can now be partakers in that very same divine nature that makes us "new creatures", whereby we are fashioned into the very image of Christ.