Quote Originally Posted by theway View Post
Oh I see... so the logic of God is that God is perfect because He says so? That means it is impossible for Jesus to have sinned. That would make Christ's claim to perfection and righteousness meaningless, because there would be nothing to gauge His perfection or righteousness against.

If it is impossible for Jesus to have sinned, then at the same time it would be impossible for Him to have claimed His righteousness.
Yes it was impossible for Jesus to have sinned.. God is the measure by which perfection is measured. And since He also can't lie, when He says so that is the way it is.. Are you ready to judge Him? You do that and tell Him that He isn't as perfect as you..

Just how is the claim that Jesus is God and therefore perfect make His perfection meaningless? It makes His the pure lamb of God that could be the spotless sacrifice for sin. He had no sin of His own to pay for so He could become the sacrifice for the sins of all sinners.. It was the only way we could become the righteousness of God through Him..

Why under heaven is it impossible for a totally righteous person to claim to be righteous? You have said that it is impossible for that to be the case and yet you have not explained why that can be.. The LDS claim that new born babies are clean before God, so they not? What is cleanliness before God is not sinlessness? disagree that people sin to become sinners.. If sin is their base nature that is why they are sinners and they sin because they are sinners.. God is not a sinner by His nature but rather is perfect is His nature.. Your baseless claim that God can't be righteous if He had never sinned is not logical. Righteousness is righteousness, sin is sin.. A person is either one or the other. It doesn't take a genesis to understand the difference.. IHS jim