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Jesus Christ and Sin

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There is a passge that relates human nature, the devil, death, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

"Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil - and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death." Hebrews 2: 14-15

This passage presents a number of factors that are very relevant to the topic. The term 'flesh and blood' is descriptive of the make up of everyone of us.

"So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work in my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? …So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin." Romans 7: 21-25

Jesus Christ shared exactly the same nature as us, a body of 'flesh and blood'.

"For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathise with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are - yet was without sin." Hebrews 4:15