Yet, what the law could not accomplish God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin. He condemned sin in the flesh. Christ came as a human in all aspects, except sin, as the word likeness (instead of the term same) suggests. He was sinless (I Peter 2:22) and did not inherit Adam's fallen nature since He was immune through the fact that a virgin, Mary directly conceived Him through the Holy Spirit and not through a male seed (Matthew 1:18, 23). Hence the Greek phrase and for sin (Gr. peri hamartias) is best understood as representing Jesus as the perfect offering for sin. Jesus Christ was a likeness of us. This likeness (Gr. homoious) was not merely an appearance; He is completely human (John 1:14), with the same desires that yield to sin, yet He never sinned (II Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 2:17–18; 4:14–16). Christ took on humanity in order to be our sin offering. Because Christ was sinless, his death removed the death sentence on sin for all of us, setting us free from sin's power over us: He condemned sin in the flesh. Jesus gave himself as a sacrifice (sin offering) for our sins.
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