NATURE OF MAN ó NATURE AND SACRIFICE OF CHRIST

1. a) "Adamic condemnation is purely physical and means no more than that we are mortal and possess an inclination to transgress God's law; it is not of itself a reason for alienation or estrangement."

This condemnation is never spoken of as being the cause of alienation or estrangement in ITSELF. Rom. 5:12

b. "Sin-nature does not require a blood shedding sacrifice to cleanse or purify it. Christ did not die to atone for sin-nature."

c. "Baptism effects the conscience only. Past sins are forgiven and the conscience is purged. It has no effect on sin-nature."

Acts 2:38, 22:16, Heb. 9:13-115, 1 Pet. 3:21, Matt. 26:28

2. a) "Christ ëwas made sin for us' and bore ëour sins in his own body on (or to) the tree', in being treated as a sinner on the principle that the unsinning victim is regarded as a sinner in the sense of being a sin-bearer. Our transgressions ritually laid on him constituted Christ the victim."

1 Pet. 2:24, Isa. 53:5-6, 12, Heb. 9:28, 10:12, John 1:29

b. "Jesus did not offer first for HIS OWN (PERSONAL) sins and then for the people's."

The only sins for which the Scriptures declare Christ to have died are those committed by others.
1 John 2:2, 1 Cor. 15:3, 1 John 3:5, Heb. 1:3, 9:28; 1 Pet. 3:18, Rev. 1:5, Rom. 4:25, Eph. 1:17, etc.

3. "Jesus was not liable to a violent death because he shared our nature."

The teaching which declares that Christ was liable to a violent death cannot be sustained by a single passage from the word of God. The only passages dealing with his nature simply state that it was identical to our's.
Gal. 4:4, Rom. 8:3, Heb. 2:14...

The kind of death (violent, bloodshedding) was required to atone for sins, of which he had none:
1 John 1:7, 1 Pet. 1:18-19, Isa. 53:5, Matt. 26:28, etc.

4. "God does not treat, nor does He require a bloodshedding sacrifice to atone for sin, in its secondary sense of human nature."

Same as #3 - plus,
That which estranges us from God are our sins, not sin-nature:
Eze. 14:5, 23:17-18; Jer. 5:25, Isa. 59:2, 2 Cor. 5:18-19, Acts 3:19, 26, 5:31, 10:43, 2 Pet. 1:9, Rev. 1:5, 1 John 3:5, 1:9, Heb. 10:16-18, Eph. 4:17-19, Col. 1:21

5. "The only cleansing required by Christ was in his nature, which was done after his resurrection. The kind of death he suffered was unnecessary for himself, except as part of the obedience God required of him."

The words, cleanse, cleansed, etc. are not actually used of the Lord. I have used it here only to give expression to the truth that he required a change of nature before he was fit for everlasting life. He is spoken of as having been
a. "Perfected": Heb. 2:10, 5:9
b. "Glorified": Jo. 7:39, 12:16, 23
c. "Quickened": 1 Pet. 3:18 (1 Cor. 15:45)
on the third day, after his resurrection:
Phil. 2:8-11, Jo. 10:17-18, Acts 4:10-12, 2 Cor. 13:4, Eph. 2:13-17, 1 Pet. 2:21, 3:18, 4:1, 1 Cor. 5:7, Jo. 3:16-17, 1 Jo. 4:9-10

6. a) "Sin was representatively condemned in the body of Christ when he was crucified. Sin was not there in the literal sense, requiring a violent, bloodshedding sacrifice for its cleansing."

Rom. 8:3, 6:4-6, 2 Cor. 5:14-15, Heb. 9:24, 4:15, 1 Pet. 2:22

b) "The object of Christ's sacrificial death was to condemn sin AS REPRESENTED IN HIS FLESH (sin-nature), as an illustration of what was due sinners, that God might, without compromising His own sovereignty and righteousness, provide a basis for the forgiveness of repentent sinners. It was not Christ or his nature which was condemned, but SIN AS REPRESENTED IN HIS NATURE."

Rom. 3:25-26, Jo. 8:46, Matt. 12:7, James 5:6

7. "The term ëdiabolos' as used in Heb. 2:14 is a personification of sin as it is expressed or manifested in human nature."

1 Cor. 15:55-56, Rom. 6:23, James 1:15, Rom. 7:9-11, Heb. 9:26, 1 Jo 3:5

"The righteousness of God was declared in the ritual of the (Christ's) sin offering, in which death is exhibited as the wages of sin."

Rom. 3:25

R. R. Stone