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Puritan Board Doctor
". . .the human nature of Christ did have the ability to sin during His humiliation. The Lord Jesus experienced true and painful temptation, and had to resist that temptation as a man by the grace of the Spirit. As we have seen, He has a complete human nature, body and soul, including a human mind and freely choosing will. He entered this world in a state of humiliation, vulnerable and changeable. His human nature, considered abstractly, had the capacity to sin (peccability) until confirmed in unchangeable righteousness when He was glorified." (bold emphasis is mine)
The quote is from: Reformed Systematic Theology: Volume 2: Man and Christ by Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley (Wheaton: Crossway, 2020), p. 815.
I maintain that, since Jesus did not inherit His mother's sin nature (which goes unmentioned in this section), He did not, in fact, have the ability to sin during His humiliation.
I'll have to noodle this some more, but I think I'm right about this.
The quote is from: Reformed Systematic Theology: Volume 2: Man and Christ by Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley (Wheaton: Crossway, 2020), p. 815.
I maintain that, since Jesus did not inherit His mother's sin nature (which goes unmentioned in this section), He did not, in fact, have the ability to sin during His humiliation.
I'll have to noodle this some more, but I think I'm right about this.