Why did God send His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh?
God's purpose in sending His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh was to deal with the old Adam, condemning the old Adam and the flesh. He came down to man's level, in man's frame of flesh, that He might condemn sin and the flesh.
Les teaches that this is something he cannot comprehend except through the eyes of faith: the Creator God Himself, Jesus Christ, who spoke the universe into being and formed Adam from the dust, took on the likeness of sinful flesh. That was His whole purpose of coming—to get right down at man's level, in man's frame of flesh, that He might condemn sin and the flesh. He condemned the old Adam and the flesh for the sake of dealing with the old Adam.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
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Why did Jesus come to earth in the flesh?
The whole purpose of Jesus' coming was to get right down at man's level, in man's frame of flesh, so that He might condemn sin and the flesh.
How can the Creator God coming in the likeness of sinful flesh be comprehended?
The Creator God taking on the likeness of sinful flesh is something Les cannot comprehend except through the eyes of faith.