Part III: Questions about Salvation

72. Q. How could the Son of God suffer?
       A. Christ, the Son of God, took flesh and blood, that he might obey and suffer as a man.

(Click through to read scriptural proof.)

• John 1:14
  

  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

• Romans 8:3
  

  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh….

•  Galatians 4:4
  

  But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law….

• Philippians 2:7-8
  

  …but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.  And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

• Hebrews 2:14, 17
  

  Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil….

   

  Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

   

• Hebrews 4:15
  

  For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.