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The conclusions of the quest for the historical Jesus, which casts the majority of Christ’s life as a myth, are a stark contrast to the orthodox view of Christ as presented in the Bible. Pate demonstrates that a critical analysis of the gospel text along with historical and cultural methods of investigation actually point toward an orthodox view of Christ. This work argues that the canonical...

overruled Jesus’ human nature such that he was not able to sin. But how is this any different from the heretic Eutyches who said that Jesus’ divine nature swallowed up his human nature, something the Council at Ephesus rightly rejected? (I am not at all calling Gromaki, my brother in Christ, a heretic. I am merely concerned about his analogy.) Two pieces of evidence lead me to reject this view that Christ was not able to sin. (1) The struggle with his temptations, whether in the wilderness or in
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