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If Jesus Christ was born without the original sin, then how could He have died?
I think Gregory Nazianzus states the reason why he had to die (https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3103a.htm):
For that which He has not assumed He has not healed
If Christ did not die, our death ...
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Why did Eve say that "touching" the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil would kill you?
To eat, presumes a touch. To eat an apple from a tree, to eat a potato from the ground, you have to touch each.
So, while scripture only records that God says do not eat and nothing about do not ...
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If Jesus Christ was born without the original sin, then how could He have died?
Jesus answers this question quite simply Himself:
17 ... I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I ...
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Why did Eve say that "touching" the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil would kill you?
Eve was in fact meeting the Devil half-way by adding to what God had commanded. In other words, she did not want to take any chance of being led away. But the argument of the Devil in Gen 3:4 does not ...
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If Jesus Christ was born without the original sin, then how could He have died?
Many assume that "Adam was immortal until the fall", but had that been the case, then there would have been no need to debar him from the way to the Tree of Life. Had he partaken of the Tree ...
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