Gods Stone became a Man like us and Shattered Excuses for Ongoing Sin in Humanity

If sin is inevitable, Christ didn't become human like us.

Jesus became fully human, proving our nature isn't intrinsically sinful. We were sinful due to our separation from God, which He remedied through the incarnation, His atoning death on the cross and the gift of His Holy Spirit at pentecost. If we abide in Him and walk by the Spirit, we walk in love, free from sin. (John 14 & 15)

Anyone who teaches sin is inevitable post conversion necessarily denies the incarnation and makes excuses for ongoing disobedience. Christ shattered these excuses by living sinlessly in our flesh. Those who persist in sin or teach that sin is unavoidable will be crushed by Him at the final judgment.

Jesus is the rock of offense, rejected by men but precious in the Fathers sight, the cornerstone of the kingdom of heaven on earth - actual obedience by the Spirit here and now.

Isaiah 8:14-15 ESV
14 And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”

Matthew 21:42-44 ESV
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? 43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 44 And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”

Daniel 2:34 ESV
34 As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

The incarnate Christ is the stone:

• Not hewn by human hands (not human theology or innovation but sent by the Father, His Word made flesh)
• A stumbling stone (those who trip over His actual demands or can't believe Jesus became exactly what we are as His incarnation condemns their ongoing sin and hypocrisy)
• Whoever falls on this stone will be broken (confrontation with Christ breaks our excuses for sin, leads us to repentance and ultimately salvation through faith and transformation by His Spirit)
• Whoever it falls on will be crushed (final judgment for those who persist in sin and false teaching that expects and excuses it)

Sin nature theology is a man made image of human nature forged in the furnace of Augustines theological speculation, not the apostolic teaching. But Christ is the stone not made by human hands that crushes all human systems. He reveals to us what human nature is by his coming in human nature.

Those who fall on Christ now, who confront His actual commands, example and humanity, letting it break their comfortable theology will be broken down but remade and saved.

Those who persist in teaching that sin is inevitable, who build their theology around excusing ongoing sin, will be crushed when He returns.

Jesus took our flesh. He became fully human. He had human desires identical to us resulting in genuine temptation exactly as we experience it. Yet He did not sin. This shatters every excuse for ongoing sin. If Christ by the Spirit in our flesh could obey, we can obey in Christ through the same Spirit.

Anyone who teaches sin is inevitable post conversion functionally denies the incarnation (even if they verbally confess it). What you say matters little if you rip it of all meaning. They claim our flesh makes sin necessary, which means Christ either didn't truly take on our flesh (human nature) because if he did he couldn't have remained sinless because its sinful by nature. Both positions contradict scripture:

Hebrews 2:17 ESV
17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 4:15 ESV
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Christ is the stone of offense not hewn by human hands. The Son of God being made identically what we are offends most and is repulsive to even many Christians. They wont say this but they have such a low view of creation and human nature they can't conceive of Jesus being exactly what everyone else is and living free from sin without exceptions or hedging (eg Mary filtered out a "sin nature" from him that we have or he only took on Adams "pre fall" humanity not what we are today post fall.) These excuses are deceptions not found in scripture but coined up to dodge the implications of the incarnation - that Jesus became exactly what we are and destroyed all excuses for ongoing sin in this life in humanity. The well was poisoned many centuries ago yet the church still draws water from it.

Jeremiah 16:19 ESV
19 O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah foresaw our generation. A false Christ is an idol, a Christ who isn't made what we are but was spared our nature is false. An idol that excuses sin instead of delivering us from it.

1 John 3:5-7 ESV
5 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.

1 Peter 2:6-8 ESV
6 For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” 7 So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” 8 and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

Isaiah 42:18-23 ESV
18 Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see! 19 Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the Lord? 20 He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear. 21 The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious. 22 But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, “Restore!” 23 Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?

Isaiah foresaw this very condition: a people who hear the words of God, confess His name, and yet refuse to listen when obedience is demanded. This is our generation as much as it was the generation of Christ.

Sin nature theology is a false human construct, a theological speculation, Augustines innovation, not apostolic truth. It necessarily denies that Jesus became exactly what we are (post Adams sin), without any exceptions. Fall on Christ now, let His actual words and His sinless life in our human flesh break your excuses. Or persist in teaching that sin is inevitable and be crushed when He returns asking, 'Why do you call me Lord and not do what I say? For the Son of Man will judge us all according to our works and our human nature will not be an excuse for our ongoing sin before the man who died on the cross for our sin. He did this to purify a blameless people for himself zealous for good works. Living spotless lives by the Spirit, with clear consciences and sincere love.

Everyone who teaches sin nature theology is in direct confrontation with Christ Himself, the Logos (argument) of God against ongoing sin:

• His incarnation in human nature refutes them
• His commands condemn them
• His sinless life exposes them
• His blood and death silence them
• His bodily return will judge them

He is the light of the world, the truth incarnate and those who live in sin hate the light and don't come to it lest their deeds be exposed. They will gladly worship a fully divine Christ because that doesn't challenge their excuses for ongoing sin (after all, they aren't God). But when the Son of God became the Son of Man, truly human like us, experiencing human life like us, He shattered these excuses by condemning sin in the flesh and proving obedience is possible in our humanity when filled with the Holy Spirit. Anyone who doesn't have the Holy Spirit is none of His and outside of Christ.

Romans 8:9 ESV
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

John 3:19-21 ESV
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

Romans 8:3-4 ESV
3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Hear that, he didn't come in the likeness of prefallen adam, he didn't come in the likeness of sinless humanity, he came in our exact likeness! The same humanity we sin in He took to himself and freed it from its bondage to sin through the power of the Spirit!

So what should be our response?

Repentant faith resulting in a loving obedient life through the Spirit, to all Christ taught, abiding in Him. The incarnation was a statement not an exception. Fall on the stone now (repent of false teaching, embrace that obedience is possible) by his grace and Spirit abide in Him obeying His teachings, walking in His love or have the stone fall on you (face judgment for making void His commands and denying His incarnation).

Isaiah 8:9-10 ESV
9 Be broken, you peoples, and be shattered; give ear, all you far countries; strap on your armor and be shattered; strap on your armor and be shattered. 10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us. 11 For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:

Since the incarnation and pentecost there has been no excuse for ongoing sin in anyone, neither you nor I. Though if one stumbles, mercy is offered, get up, return to the path of love and righteousness. The goal is for us all to be living like Jesus. However God won't be mocked, what someone sows that they will reap at the judgment.

Do not make void his teachings by the doctrines and traditions of men, for these won't excuse us on the last day. Your pastor or your favourite theologians won't be a defense for you on that day when you stand before the man Jesus to give account of everything said and done in the body. Put away sin which is enmity with God, return to Him and He will receive you, abide in Him, in love and you won't sin against Him, walk by the Spirit and you won't do the deeds of the flesh.

Romans 2:3-11 ESV
3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. 6 He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 11 For God shows no partiality.

Excuses for sin or truth? Slavery to sin or actual freedom from it? The comfortable lie of Sin nature theology that lets you keep your sin or the genuine incarnation of the Son in our human nature that rebukes it? They are mutually exclusive beliefs. God will not hold guiltless those who deny His Son came in our exact humanity (and if He did, human nature isnt sinful when united to God by the Holy Spirit):

2 John 1:7-11 ESV
7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward. 9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, 11 for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ESV
13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Revelation 22:11-15 ESV
11 Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.” 12 “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” 14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. 15 Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.