If Paul's flesh is sinful flesh as the JW's confess and Jesus partook of the same flesh it means Jesus shared the same sinful flesh as Paul.
And when it says "the word became flesh" it means the word became sinful flesh.
And when John says that anyone who does not confess that Jesus had come in the flesh to be anti-Christ, he means that anyone who does not confess that Jesus had come in the same flesh as the rest of man was an anti-Christ.
Why would they be an anti-Christ'?
Because they would rob Jesus of his glory in overcoming the world. All that is in the world is the lust of the eyes and the lust of the felsh
How did I know that you were going to push this envelope....?
Because you only see what you want to see....
"Son of man" means that he was human. To become mankind's redeemer, he had to be 100% human. He existed in heaven before his human birth, and after completing his mission, he returned to the spirit realm after his resurrection.
He was the "Son of God" before his earthly sojourn, and remained God's "Logos" (spokesman) throughout his existence, interacting with humans before his time on earth, whilst he was in human form, and after he returned to heaven. He has always been at God's right hand.
Legally (under Jewish law) Jesus was a son of Joseph and Mary, both of whom had genealogies going back to David and Abraham. That makes him a legal "son of Abraham".....born of a Jewish mother and being accepted as the legal son of Joseph. But he was not biologically related to Joseph at all, as you have been shown many times.
Jesus was a legal son of Abraham.....but not a biological son...let that sink in.
He was human in every respect...flesh and blood like we are, with all the normal human emotions and traits....but he had no sin nature....because he was from God not Joseph. He had no defect of sin like Adam passed onto his children. (Romans 5:12) You are just not getting this...are you?
I can see how excited you are...but you are dead wrong IMO. Jesus could not pay the redemption price if he was sinful like us.
Psalm 49:6-8....
"Those who are trusting in their wealth
And who boast about their great riches,
7 None of them can ever redeem a brother
Or give to God a ransom for him,
8 (The ransom price for their life is so precious
That it is always beyond their reach)"
The redemption price for the human race was higher than any human could pay....that is why God sent Jesus from heaven.....if Jesus was a sinful human, then the ransom is not paid, and we are forever lost in sin and death.
Only an unblemished animal was offered for sacrifice. It could have no defect because it pictured the perfect flesh and blood of Christ. Do you not see the pictorial representation?
Read all those verses again and then read the NWT's translation again......it isn't saying what you think it is.
Yes they all get it right like the NWT does.
What are you missing in your haste to be "right"? What does
"in like manner" mean? Can you read? Read them all again and see that the NWT says the same thing. "Similarly" means "in like manner". You are jumping up and down over nothing.
No, all I see is you misinterpreting what scripture says to fit your own view of things.
Jesus was the same flesh as Adam was at his creation...a perfect specimen with no sin. But he did not remain perfect due to his disobedience. Jesus offered his perfect life to pay the redemption price of Adam's children. But I am not confident that you will see the error in your thinking....
Oh well...I tried.
"He was human in every respect...flesh and blood like we are, with all the normal human emotions and traits....but he had no sin nature....because he was from God not Joseph. He had no defect of sin like Adam passed onto his children. (Romans 5:12) You are just not getting this...are you?"
Ok, so I noticed how you SKIPPED over the part about Jesus being tempted in all ways as we are. Believe me, I understand how these "christian" sects work. They always skip over certain comments they can't handle. In this case your lack of commenting destroys the context of what the writer is saying. But you can't see that.
The part about Jesus being tempted like us and the very reason he can be a merciful and faithful High Priest is precisely because he shared THE SAME FLESH as Paul, and JOHN, and PETER, and YOU and ME!
Ok, so Jesus was the same flesh as us, and the same flesh as Adam. And you say he shared all the normal human emotions and traits. Would that also included desires of the flesh?
If Jesus has the same flesh as we, then in order to be tempted as we, he had to have desires as we.
Let me show it to you again because you conveniently passed over it and it's very import in the context.
Jas 1:13 Let no one who is being tempted say, “I am tempted from God,” for God is not tempted by evils, and Himself tempts no one,
Jas 1:14 but each one is tempted, being led away and enticed
by his own desires,
Jas 1:15 afterward the desire having conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin having been perfected, brings forth death.
Jas 1:16 Do not be led astray, my beloved brothers;
Listen what Paul says about the flesh he has which is the same flesh as YOU, and ME, and JESUS and ADAM.
Rom 7:14 for we have known that the Law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by sin;
Rom 7:15 for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practice, but what I hate, this I do.
Rom 7:16 And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the Law that [it is] good,
Rom 7:17 and now it is no longer I that work it, but sin dwelling in me,
Rom 7:18 for I have known that there does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and I do not find to work that which is right,
Rom 7:19 for the good that I will, I do not do; but the evil that I do not will, this I practice.
Rom 7:20 And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but sin that is dwelling in me.
Rom 7:21 I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, the evil is present with me,
Rom 7:22 for I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man,
Rom 7:23 and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin that [is] in my members.
Rom 7:24 A wretched man I [am]! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed serve the Law of God with the mind, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
Paul recognizes that sin dwells in his flesh which James explains is where temptation comes from and sin or actual transgression begins. Paul is saying that when he sins it is no longer he that does it but the sin dwelling in him. In his flesh.
Paul here, like elsewhere, personifies sin as a MASTER by saying it is no longer him but Sin that dwells in his flesh warring against the law of his mind and that that sin is always present with him in his flesh.
So, the FACT that Jesus was tempted to actually transgress the law by having the same desires of the flesh, proves his flesh was the same flesh as PAUL's and everyone else.
When the Bible says "he did no sin" or was "without sin" it is NOT speaking of his flesh but the fact that he never gave into the flesh's sinful desires even though his flesh had them. He conquered it. if his flesh did not have desires like Paul's flesh, then Jesus' flesh would have been a different flesh. Which clearly it was not.
Now, lets look at Romans 8
Rom 8:3 for what the Law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent
in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
Rom 8:4 that the righteousness of the Law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Rom 8:5 For those who are according to the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;
Rom 8:6 for the mind of the flesh [is] death, and the mind of the Spirit—life and peace;
Rom 8:7 because the mind of the flesh [is] enmity to God, for to the Law of God it does not subject itself,
Rom 8:8 for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
Rom 8:9 And you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you; and if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ—this one is not His;
Rom 8:10 and if Christ [is] in you, the body, indeed, [is] dead because of sin, and the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness,
Rom 8:11 and if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus out of the dead dwells in you, He who raised up the Christ out of the dead will also quicken your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.
The ONLY way the sin which dwells in the flesh of man could be condemned is if Jesus was in the likeness of that SAME FLESH. God could NOT condemn that flesh if Jesus did not share it!