Wandered onto your journal after seeing your engagement announcement below my wedding announcement in the Big Spring Herald; congratulations, by the way.
As to your post about the news, I'd definitely advocate archaeology as a career; I'm finishing my PhD in archaeology about eighteen months from now.
I have a question for you (and anyone else). I'm reading this book on doctrine and in one chapter it discusses the fact that Christ was perfect, never sinned...which yes of course, but then it says that Christ never had the ability to sin. Basically that even when He was tempted, he couldn't have sinned. I don't see that at all....Hebrews says that we do not serve a God that can't relate to us because he has been tempted in every manner that we have. But I don't see how He can claim to know what we feel in the face of temptation if when he was tempted it really wasn't a temptation since he couldn't follow through with it.
I was just curious if that has been discussed in any of your classes and what you think about it (and why).
Nikki, when I saw that the Colorado story happened in Boulder (or as we like to call it, The People's Republic of Boulder), I wasn't particularly surprised... All kinds of crazy things happen there. I do feel sorry for the guy, though. Ugh.
Erin- Great question. I'm sure that you would have like 50 explanations by now normally, but the problem is that we are going through a very intense time at Southern right now. All of us procrastinators are trying to write papers and take tests. Only a week and a half left of classes---I will respond soon, though.
I'm not a seminary student, but my answer to Erin's question is that saying Christ couldn't sin is like saying we are unable to avoid sin. It's probably better to distinguish between the physical ability to sin and the spiritual ability to sin. Christ could have sinned, physically speaking, because he was human just like all of us. But his spiritual condition would not permit sin since he was and is God.
Think about a time when you have resisted temptation and did not sin because you wanted your actions to glorify God. Were you not capable of sinning at that time? Yet you did not. Well, Jesus was tempted in the same way countless times, yet there was never a moment when he yielded to temptation.
Nikki!!! Long time no see...I miss ya lots!! I am on blogspot.com now (naylaraad.blogspot.com), but the html is giving me a hard time, can you help me out?
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Whoa, that's pretty crazy. I didn't realize there was a tornado last night.
In other news, check out the story about pirates attacking the cruise ship: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174677,00.html
Wandered onto your journal after seeing your engagement announcement below my wedding announcement in the Big Spring Herald; congratulations, by the way.
As to your post about the news, I'd definitely advocate archaeology as a career; I'm finishing my PhD in archaeology about eighteen months from now.
Hey Nik,
I have a question for you (and anyone else). I'm reading this book on doctrine and in one chapter it discusses the fact that Christ was perfect, never sinned...which yes of course, but then it says that Christ never had the ability to sin. Basically that even when He was tempted, he couldn't have sinned. I don't see that at all....Hebrews says that we do not serve a God that can't relate to us because he has been tempted in every manner that we have. But I don't see how He can claim to know what we feel in the face of temptation if when he was tempted it really wasn't a temptation since he couldn't follow through with it.
I was just curious if that has been discussed in any of your classes and what you think about it (and why).
Nikki, when I saw that the Colorado story happened in Boulder (or as we like to call it, The People's Republic of Boulder), I wasn't particularly surprised... All kinds of crazy things happen there. I do feel sorry for the guy, though. Ugh.
Erin-
Great question. I'm sure that you would have like 50 explanations by now normally, but the problem is that we are going through a very intense time at Southern right now. All of us procrastinators are trying to write papers and take tests. Only a week and a half left of classes---I will respond soon, though.
-nikki
I'm not a seminary student, but my answer to Erin's question is that saying Christ couldn't sin is like saying we are unable to avoid sin. It's probably better to distinguish between the physical ability to sin and the spiritual ability to sin. Christ could have sinned, physically speaking, because he was human just like all of us. But his spiritual condition would not permit sin since he was and is God.
Think about a time when you have resisted temptation and did not sin because you wanted your actions to glorify God. Were you not capable of sinning at that time? Yet you did not. Well, Jesus was tempted in the same way countless times, yet there was never a moment when he yielded to temptation.
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Jason, Armchair Theologian :)
Nikki!!! Long time no see...I miss ya lots!! I am on blogspot.com now (naylaraad.blogspot.com), but the html is giving me a hard time, can you help me out?
Email me: nara2231@aol.com
Nayla :)
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