ore, ?as God, Christ is certain to do only good, and yet He is a moral agent making choices. He need not have the capacity to sin .?The third argument in support of the peccability of Jesus is based on the Scriptural statements that Jesus is the second or New Adam and corresponds to the first Adam. Thus, if Jesus was the second Adam he had to have all the qualities and characteristics of the first Adam. The proponents of this argument then proceed to conclude that one of the characteristics of Adam was the ability to sin.However, in actual fact, this argument misses the point. The first Adam was a perfect man when he was created by God. ?Adam was created in holiness without the inward compulsion toward sin that now characterizes his progeny ? or ?Jesus did not possess a sin nature because it was not a part of the original nature of man .? In the garden Adam knew neither sin nor the consequences of sin. ?[Adam] had no experience of sin ? before the Serpent and Eve presented him the apple from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. It was only when Adam disobeyed God that Adam added sin to his perfect nature. This is a case of arguing from the present condition to a past condition which is then applicable to Jesus. It ?make[s] the mistake of taking our imperfect lives as the standard, and regarding Christ as human only as He conforms to our failures. [Rather,] He is the standard, and He shows us what a genuine humanity can be .? Thus, the perfect human is without sin and is capable of not sinning (even though the perfect human will still have inherited a sin nature and original sin from Adam). Therefore, Christ can be the second or New Adam and still not have a peccable nature.In the chapter entitled ?The Sinlessness of Christ? in Berkouwer?s book The Person of Christ, the author presents three unique arguments for the peccability of Christ. I did not find mention of these arguments in any other source and, therefore, am sceptical of the...
