A Christian Tries Explaining the Concept of Sin

[dmallind]

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Disclaimer - this is all utter hogswash, but even asinine concepts can be explained.

You have to deal with two basic concepts: 1) The hypostatic nature of Christ that is a fully human nature subsumed in a fully divine nature. If Christ had been entirely human, his sacrifice would neither have been sufficient nor universalized. If he had been solely divine, neither sacrifice nor suffering would have been possible as the divine physis can experience neither.

2) The penal substitution theory of atonement. Basically because humans offended the honor of God by disobedience, only a human sacrifice can atone for this sin. But only a divine sacrifice can be sufficient to atone for the sinful nature of all humanity. So only a fully divine and fully human sacrifice can achieve both.

It is the unique nature of Christ as being a single prosopon with two natures that allows substitutional atonement.