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Updated: May 10, 2025
How wondrously human this God-man was in His temptations, in His set refusals, and even more, how human in keeping free from sin. For sin is not human, letting sin in would have been a going down from the human level. This is the practical meaning of His sinlessness choice, choice insisted upon, fighting, continual prayer, the Father's help, such as any man may have not more.
In other words, God desires that we should be spiritually healthy, and this we cannot be with secret sins in our lives. Second: It is his desire that we should be sanctified. 1 Thessalonians 4:3, "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication." Sanctification is not sinlessness, it is separation.
The Servant was of absolute sinlessness, and yet the Divine Hand crushed and bruised Him.
The claim of infallibility has done harm enough already in the Roman Church! Baha-'ullah may no doubt be invoked on the other side. This is the absolutely correct statement of his son Abdul Baha. The question of Sinlessness I postpone. I do not myself think that the interval of nineteen years for the Great Manifestation was meant by the Bāb to be taken literally.
He gets our sins, we get His holiness. By faith alone can we become righteous, for faith invests us with the sinlessness of Christ. The more fully we believe this, the fuller will be our joy. If you believe that sin, death, and the curse are void, why, they are null, zero. Whenever sin and death make you nervous write it down as an illusion of the devil.
But lead your mother, and aspire yourself, toward perfect integrity, and the sinlessness of heaven. Let the portraiture of a holy life be drawn on the canvass before you; then will you enjoy the sweet anticipation, as your tears bedew her grave, "My mother where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.
River crystalline, gate crystalline, and skies crystalline, because everything is clear and without doubt. White robes, and that means sinlessness. Vials full of odors, and that means pure regalement of the senses. Rainbow, and that means the storm is over. Marriage supper, and that means gladdest festivity. Twelve manner of fruits, and that means luscious and unending variety.
If he fails to reach the mystery of sinlessness in man, and is therefore not quite free from a Sabellianising view of the Lord's humanity as a mere vesture of his divinity, he at least rises far above the barren logic of the Arians. We shall presently have to compare him with the next great Eastern thinker, Apollinarius of Laodicea. Yet there were many men whom Arianism suited by its shallowness.
The sinlessness of him who sought baptism with no confession on his lips nor sense of penitence in his heart offers no barrier to his experience of genuine temptation, unless we think him incapable of sin, and therefore not "like unto his brethren." The account as given in Matthew and Luke represents the experience with which the forty days' struggle culminated.
There will be a continual coming for cleansing in the only fluid that can remove sin His precious blood, and in the only flame that can burn it out the fire of the Holy Spirit. There will be a hardening of the set purpose to be free of sin. We can be sinless in purpose. There can be a growing sinlessness in actual life.
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