As Origen noted, we human beings have “the flesh of sin,” but the Son had the “likeness of sinful flesh.” He came in a form like us in that he became a member of the sin-oriented human race; he experienced the effects of sin and suffered death, the result of sin, as one “cursed” by the law (Gal 3:13). Thus, in his own person he coped with the power of sin. Paul’s use of the phrase sarx hamartias denotes not the guilty human condition, but the proneness of humanity made of flesh that is oriented to