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The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland

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and Waggoner were teaching; she rejected their<br />

complaints:<br />

Letters have been coming in to me affirming<br />

that Christ could not have had the same nature as<br />

man, for, if He had, he would have fallen under<br />

similar temptations [the Roman Catholic view!]. If<br />

He did not have man's nature, He could not be our<br />

example. If He was not a partaker of our nature, He<br />

could not have been tempted as man has been. If it<br />

were not possible for Him to yield to temptation,<br />

He could not be our helper. It was a solemn reality<br />

that Christ came to fight the battle as man, in man's<br />

behalf. His temptation and victory tell us that<br />

humanity must copy the Pattern (1SM 408).<br />

Let us analyze this statement:<br />

(a) <strong>The</strong> timing is very soon after the initial<br />

publication of Waggoner's views of the nature of<br />

Christ in his Christ and His Righteousness, and<br />

Signs articles.<br />

(b) <strong>The</strong> "letters" she referred to were on the<br />

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