jimmy:
It was our flesh which he took on.
I agree Christ took on the very same human flesh as we have. The point I make when I mention that it wasn’t by the will of man that He was concieved is that His conception was brought about by the will of God. No other since Adam and Eve were concieved this way. The generating force was not carnal but divine. The generating force of His conception was the Holy Spirit and the passive force that recieved it was without original sin. These are the conditions of the first creation. Mary’s soul was embodied with fallen flesh but I can’t agree that Christ’s was.
Yes it was, Christ had the same flesh that Mary and the rest of humanity has. One view of the redemption is that Christ died in order to make man immortal. By dieing for us he saved us from death. Christ recieved his flesh from Mary, hence it was the same as the flesh that Adam had and the same as the flesh that we had.
Another point is, Christ died so his flesh had to be a fallen flesh. The flesh of Adam and Eve was created immortal but they sinned and it became mortal.
This is from Aquinas.
As Augustine says (Contra Faust. xiv), sin is accursed, and, consequently, so is death, and mortality, which comes of sin. “But Christ’s flesh was mortal, ‘having the resemblance of the flesh of sin’”; and hence Moses calls it “accursed,” just as the Apostle calls it “sin,” saying (
2 Cor. 5:21
): “Him that knew no sin, for us He hath made sin”—namely, because of the penalty of sin. “Nor is there greater ignominy on that account, because he said: ‘He is accursed of God.’” For, “unless God had hated sin, He would never have sent His Son to take upon Himself our death, and to destroy it. Acknowledge, then, that it was for us He took the curse upon Himself, whom you confess to have died for us.” Hence it is written (
Gal. 3:13): “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.”
Aquinas clearly recognized that Christ had a fallen flesh.
