BARNEY BRIGHT
Well-Known Member
Wrong. Jesus returns as the glorified God-man that He is! He is the first fruits of the resurrection from the dead. To be resurrected, you have to rise with what you died in!
Wrong, Jesus came in the likeness of the first man Adam. Just as the first Adam wasn't a God-Man, neither was the last Adam, Jesus. Those of you who call Jesus a God-Man denys he came as a human in the likeness of Adam because you say he came more than a human.
Adam, who lost everlasting life in human perfection, bequeathed sin and death to his offspring (Ro 5:12), and Adam’s descendants therefore came under condemnation to death. If humankind was to regain the opportunity to enjoy everlasting life, then, in harmony with a legal principle that Jehovah later included in the Mosaic Law, namely, that like must go for like, exact atonement would be required for what had been lost by Adam.—De 19:21.
As used in the Bible, “atonement” has the basic thought of “cover” or “exchange,” and that which is given in exchange for, or as a “cover” for, another thing must be its duplicate or equivalent Thus, anything making satisfaction for something that is lost or forfeited must be “at one” with that other thing, completely covering it as its exact equivalent. There must be no overlapping and no coming short. No imperfect human could provide such a covering or atonement to restore perfect human life to any or all of mankind. (Ps 49:7, 8) To make adequate atonement for what was forfeited by Adam, a sin offering having the precise value of a perfect human life would have to be provided.
This is what was ransomed a perfect human life that's what Jesus sacrificed, not a God-Man but a perfect sinless human man is what was lost and an offspring of perfect sinless humans so Jesus sacrificed a perfect human man, not a God-man.