A.W. Pink and the Impeccability of Christ

Picking back up where I left off I found this article by A.W. Pink article on the Impeccability of Christ.

"The constitution of Christ’s person proves His impeccability.  In Him were united (in a manner altogether incomprehensible to created intelligence) the Divine and the human natures. Now “God cannot be tempted with evil” (James 1:13); “it is impossible for God to lie” (Heb. 6:18). And Christ was “God manifest in flesh” (1 Tim. 3:16);“Immanuel”—God with us (Matt. 1:23). Personality centered not in His humanity. Christ was a Divine person, who had been “made in the likeness of men” (Phil. 2:7). Utterly impossible was it, then, for the God-man to sin. To affirm the contrary, is to be guilty of the most awful blasphemy. It is irreverent speculation to discuss what the human nature of Christ might have done if it had been alone. It never was alone; it never had a separate existence; from the first moment of  its being it was united to a Divine person."

The heart of the issue arrives from the definition of a man as well as Christ. Those that hold that Christ could have sinned, take their view of humanity from themselves, i.e. they are the standard of humanity. Since Christ was a man, He had to be like they are now in order to succor those who are tempted. But Christ was not born depraved, Christ was without sin, He was the perfect man. When the Word was made flesh, He was what humanity was to be, not what humanity has become. You and I are deformed, we are mutated and depraved. We are far from what true humanity is supposed to be. Jesus was fully man and fully God, He was not less man, nor was He less God, but the Godman. His perfection did not detract from His humanity. His impeccability did not detract from the attack of Satan.

We are so corrupted and tainted by sin, we cannot begin to conceive of sinless perfection. However, our imperfection and the knowledge of who we are should only cause us to bow in humble adoration to the truth of our Great God and Saviour, Christ Jesus the Lord.