Originally posted by Kain99
Why do I know you're fibbing?
Could The Lord Jesus Sin?
The serious contention has been made by some that our Lord Jesus Christ could sin when here upon earth. This is of such vital importance that I feel constrained to point out the fallacy of such a theory.
The most solemn implications follow upon this false idea. For, if the Lord Jesus could sin when He was upon earth during His sojourn here, then He can still sin now that He is in heaven, for our Lord passed through no change whatever as to His essential Personality and Being when He ascended to the throne of God, nor when He rose from the dead. Hebrews 13:8 assures us of this when it says that "Jesus Christ is the Same-yesterday, today and forever."
This could never be said of us believers; for with us the past, the present and the future are each distinctly different. In the past I had just one nature-a sinful, evil nature, capable of every sin in the catalogue of crime; in the present I have two natures-my old sinful nature, and I am also a partaker of God's divine sinless nature, according to II Peter 1:4. In the future there shall be a mighty inner as well as outer transformation as far as I am concerned, for I shall forever be relieved of my old sinful nature and be clothed with a glorified body-thus made completely like Him. We are told we shall be conformed to the image of His Son.
Since our blessed Lord did not, nor could have experienced such a spiritual change because He was and ever is perfect, then, to say He could sin while He was here on earth is to imply that He can sin now. It is this very fact that makes the contention of our Lord's possibility to sin so intensely serious, and, if considered, in its logical implication, deadly to all truth.
Praise God, as has been well said, "our Lord never ceased to be Who He was because of what He became, although absolutely perfect in what He became. What He was He is and He will be eternally."
Again we reiterate that if our Lord could sin when on earth He is still capable of sinning now. In that case we have no assurance that the work of redemption which He accomplished on the Cross is reliable. In that case our Lord might at any time in the future go back on it, and we would be eternally lost.