The Victory of the Cross by James R. Payton Jr

Author:James R. Payton Jr.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jesus;Christ;Jesus Christ;cross;death;victory;resurrection;Eastern;Orthodox;Orthodoxy;Eastern Orthodox;Eastern Orthodoxy;soteriology;salvation;savior;doctrine of salvation;salvation in eastern orthodoxy;eastern orthodox theology;death on the cross;Christian salvation;salvation through Christ;theology of salvation
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2019-08-18T11:11:33+00:00

Christ lives out his life on earth under the conditions of the fall. He is not himself a sinful person, but in his solidarity with fallen man he accepts to the full the consequences of Adam’s sin. He accepts to the full not only the physical consequences, such as weariness, bodily pain, and eventually the separation of body and soul in death. He accepts also the moral consequences, the loneliness, the alienation, the inward conflict. It may seem a bold thing to ascribe all this to the living God, but a consistent doctrine of the Incarnation requires nothing less. If Christ had merely assumed unfallen human nature, living out his earthly life in the situation of Adam in Paradise, then he would not have been touched with the feeling of our infirmities, nor would he have been tempted in everything exactly as we are. And in that case he would not be our Saviour.28

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