"And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." (Romans 1:4)
The opening verses of Paul's epistle to the Romans stressed that the gospel of Christ was actually the fulfillment of that "which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures". This promise was centered in God's eternal Son who had promised to redeem the world from sin and death.
To do this, He must become a man, "made of the seed of David according to the flesh", yet He also must be sinless in both nature and practice before He could become God's perfect sacrifice for sin. He must be perfect man--man as God intended man to be. He must be a "second Adam," created without sin, yet He must not fail as did the first Adam, being "in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin"
The opening verses of Paul's epistle to the Romans stressed that the gospel of Christ was actually the fulfillment of that "which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures". This promise was centered in God's eternal Son who had promised to redeem the world from sin and death.
To do this, He must become a man, "made of the seed of David according to the flesh", yet He also must be sinless in both nature and practice before He could become God's perfect sacrifice for sin. He must be perfect man--man as God intended man to be. He must be a "second Adam," created without sin, yet He must not fail as did the first Adam, being "in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin"
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