2:14, “in his flesh”), and that in sending his Son “in the likeness of sinful flesh,” God “condemned sin in the flesh” (Rom. 8:3). Peter speaks of Christ dying for us “in the flesh” (1 Pet. 3:18; cf. 4:1). And according to Hebrews, Christ was “made lower than the angels” and shared in our humanity in order to bring “many sons to glory” (Heb. 2:9–10). The entire weight of the New Testament, then, bears witness to the genuineness of Jesus’s humanity. Moreover, the New Testament tells us much about
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