The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland
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sinless. Before the fall, the mind of Adam was also<br />
sinless, as is the mind of all the holy angels and the<br />
unfallen universe. But that sinless mind of created<br />
beings was not the "mind ... which was also in<br />
Christ Jesus" (Philippians 2:5). <strong>The</strong>re was an<br />
infinite difference between the sinless mind of<br />
created beings and the mind of the Creator-<br />
Redeemer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> mind of Christ was agape. No sinless<br />
created mind in eternity had ever grasped the<br />
dimensions of that kind of love until Christ<br />
demonstrated it at the cross.<br />
To compare the mind of Christ with that of the<br />
sinless Adam therefore lowers the Creator down to<br />
the level of His creature. Adam in his sinless state<br />
could not have known how to die for the sins of the<br />
world. He could not have known "the breadth, and<br />
length, and depth, and height" of "the agape of<br />
Christ ... which passeth knowledge" (Ephesians<br />
3:18,19). He could not have known how to die the<br />
second death in order to redeem his fallen race,<br />
how to suffer the anguish of the lost in order to<br />
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