The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland
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to her own convictions.<br />
14. Was Christ's sinlessness due to Deity<br />
"forbidding" and "interposing" so as to prevent<br />
defilement, as Melville believed?<br />
We must be careful not to bypass the exercise<br />
of Christ's own power of choice. Can we take the<br />
position that "sinful propensities" are genetically<br />
transmitted through the genes and chromosomes?<br />
If so, we would certainly want "Deity to interpose"<br />
and "forbid" it! But then we would need for Christ<br />
at least a substitute for the Roman Catholic<br />
doctrine of the intervention of an Immaculate<br />
Conception. And if "Deity interposed [and]<br />
forbade" it for Jesus externally, why should He not<br />
be fair and do it for us as well?<br />
Some Seventh-day Adventists feel driven to the<br />
idea of an Immaculate Conception by the<br />
assumption that if Christ "took" our fallen, sinful<br />
nature then He must have "had" a sinning nature.<br />
And there the door is opened at least a crack for the<br />
Roman Catholic idea that Christ would not dare to<br />
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