Christians: If all humans are born with sin and Jesus was fully human, wasn't he born with sin too?

Question

Or was he not fully human?

I hear many Christers say that Jesus is both fully man and fully God, whatever that means.

Answer 1

I think that's sorta the point of being born of a virgin; and then having to revise the story by saying that Mary was born of a virgin as well...

Answer 2

The clear teaching of Scripture is that Jesus was impeccable - Jesus could not have sinned. If He could have sinned, He would still be able to sin today because He retains the same essence He did while living on earth. He is the God-Man - and will forever remain so, having full deity and full humanity so included in one person as to be indivisible. To believe that Jesus could sin is to believe that God could sin. Colossians 1:19, "For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell." Colossians 2:9, "For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."

Although Jesus is fully human, He was not born with the same sinful nature that we are born with. He certainly was tempted in the same way we are, in that temptations were put before Him by Satan, yet remained sinless because God is incapable of sinning. It is against His very nature (Matthew 4:1; Hebrews 2:18, 4:15; James 1:13). Sin is by definition a trespass of the Law. God created the Law, and the Law is by nature what God would or would not do; therefore, sin is anything that God would not do by His very nature.

Answer 3

Does it matter what is said? Here is where you are at, you don't believe, you aren't going to believe, so what is the point of asking or answering these questions.

You did ask though, and it appears most of the answers aren't educated, so I thought I would answer even just to help people who don't understand.

There is a difference of being born into sin and being without sin. Jesus was without sin, because he didn't sin, but he was born into sin, because every human carries the sin of Adam and Eve.

Jesus was both man and God, because only God could go through life without sinning, and only man could die on the cross as a lamb. If you understand the Old Testament, you would understand that this is all showing of the temple. The process is always the same; there must be death, burial and resurrection. Just like when people are saved, they have death by repenting of their sin and the old them dying, they have burial in being baptized in Jesus name and they have resurrection when they received the Holy Ghost. See Acts 2:38

Now, none of this matters to you, because you don't believe in God or the Bible. That isn't an issue though, not everyone believes the same thing, and it's important not to call people stupid just because they believe in God. Last I heard 74% of people with Post Graduate degrees (doctors, lawyers) believe in God. That makes it difficult to say they are all stupid. I could say you are stupid for believing that an explosion caused humans and earth. It all sounds stupid until you believe it, then it becomes what defines you.

Stop abusing each other on here; regardless of if you believe in God or Karma, it's not getting you anywhere. Not to mention, you have never made anyone an atheist by calling them stupid, and I'm pretty sure no one has ever made anyone a Christian by doing the same.

Answer 4

"Because of the Fall of Adam and Eve, all people live in a fallen condition, separated from God and subject to physical death. However, we are not condemned by what many call the “original sin.” In other words, we are not accountable for Adam’s transgression in the Garden of Eden." We have free agency to do good or bad as we will but we are not born with sin. We have to do that ourselves. On a side note, this is why there is no need to baptize babies as they haven't learned good from evil and therefore have not commited any sin. With out sin baptism is not needed.

Answer 5

Well, yes, he had original Sin. In some of the original texts, he killed some kid for being bad when HE was a kid himself. All he got was a scolding from that. Anyhoo, I don't know why Christians have to **** their own religion up. I.E. "He was born from a Virgin!" XD I'm sorry, if she had a baby and she was a Virgin, she would have probably died in childbirth. I think the fact that she had sex before she had Jesus is a Taboo made by Puritans. So, did Jesus have original Sin? Abso-freaking-lutely, he was just saved from Hell because he was the son of the guy who ran the other place.

Answer 6

He was God manifested in the flesh. What made him both human and divine was the WAY He was born. Had He been born as all other mortals, he would've been born to the same sin we all are, therefore disqualifying Him from being an able sacrifice for sin. The matter that He was born of a VIRGIN allowed Him to escape the sin curse, be holy, live a pious life and be qualified to offer Himself, not be FORCED to give Himself for sin.

Answer 7

in case you study what you purely wrote you're able to understand which you responded your very own question Jesus Adam and Eve have been born without sin and have been suited, yet you overlook that God supplies us loose will and he gave adam and eve a option to between sturdy and evil and that they chosen to to do evil so as that is while sin entered there lives, so when you consider that jesus in no way commited any sin he replaced into suited and without sin So supply up attempting to make your self seem clever cuz you for sure dont understand something relating to the bible or jesus or adam and eve

Answer 8

Because Jesus' physical body was not concieved by conventional (sexual) methods but by supernatural means he is considered to be sinless. Because Jesus' spirit occupied a human body he was equally susceptable to every human temptation.

Jesus is considered fully God and fully man because his body was just like ours but His spirit bore all the supernatural powers of God.

Answer 9

Sorry, but the answer IS that he is fully God and fully human, born without sin. That's one of the great points that's hard to understand. How could it be? Because to be an acceptable sacrifice He had to be sinless, pure and perfect. So he was.
But that doesn't mean he was never tempted, because he was. He lived on this earth, he felt hungry, tired, angry, sad--alll those things we go through.
Jesus is God--he is the 2nd person of the Trinity. He is God-on-Earth, "Emmanuel" (God with us). So basically God Himself came down and died for us on the cross because that was the only sacrifice He could accept.

Answer 10

Theologians have argued that very point and, in my opinion, the matter hasn't been settled. We must remember that the term "original sin" isn't in the Bible. Knowledgeable Christians understand the failings of the Nicene Council and Vatican I & II. The average Christian and Atheist aren't well versed enough in theology or religious history to adequately discuss the issue.

Answer 11

NO! Sin is carried on the Y chromosome. It's been mapped and identified in the Human Genome Project, dint'cha know? Since Jesus was conceived asexually, there was no Y chromosome, hence no sin. Taa-daa!

You may be asking, "well, wasn't Jesus a man?" Of course he was! Therefore the Y chromosome was, it came later, there was this thing that made him, you know, manly. Okay, not all the research is in yet. But there was no sin! When he was born, a boy; a son, that is. Of God.

Got it?

{EDIT} See Anna's post below if you're still confused. That should clear things right up.