”¦[T]here must be no weakening or obscuring of the saving truth that the nature which God assumed in Christ is identical with our nature as we see it in the light of the Fall. If it were otherwise, how could Christ really be like us? ”¦ God’s Son not only assumed our nature but He entered the concrete form of our nature, under which we stand before God as men damned and lost”¦.
–Karl Barth (1886-1968)
I understand that Christ assumed our human nature as God saw it BEFORE the Fall–in other words, in his human form he is SINLESS. I don’t read Barth as saying that at all.
Joan, surely it is a reference to 2 Corinthians 5.21 – ‘God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God’ (NIV).