It was critical in God's plan of Redemtion that whoever was going to redeem Mankind from sin and death, also shared our nature. But why? The answer is simple. It was through a man that sin was first conceived and came into the world. sin had to be condemned by a man, in the very place in which it first took hold. So it was that in being "born of a woman" that "he - also - himself - likewise - took part of the same". He was sent "in the likeness of sinful flesh" and was "tempted in all points as we are" but he never sinned.

Romans 8 talks about the contrasts of the "thinking of the flesh" with the "thinking of the spirit". In verses 3v4, Paul says that Christ "condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us...." Sin was conceived in the flesh. It to be condemned in the flesh by the righteous possesser of that flesh, as a basis for our reconciliation to God.

There was only one way that this could happen. Not only was he born of a woman, but he was also the Son of God. He was his Father's son and had to battle daily with the same impulses that lead us to sin, as we do. It was the consummate battle between flesh and the spirit. But is was the spirit that overcame!! Because, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself."