That Jesus was of our nature, notwithstanding the mode of his conception and his anointing with the Holy Spirit. He was raised up as the second Adam (constituted of flesh and blood as we are, and tempted in all points like unto us, yet without sin), to remove (by his obedience, death and resurrection) the evil consequences resulting from the disobedience of the first Adam.

The man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5).

God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh 1, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: (Romans 8:3).

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; (Hebrews 2:14).

God sent forth his Son, made of a woman (Galatians 4:4).

He was made sin for us, who knew no sin (2 Corinthians 5:21).

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead...the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:21,45).

The gift by grace (or favour), which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many... For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. (Romans 5:15,19).

He was heard in that he feared; though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; (Hebrews 5:7-8).

In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God...He was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 2:17,; 4:15).

1 This is construed to mean that Jesus existed before he was sent forth in the flesh; but this is a straining of a form of speech which is precluded by the nature of the subject. If it means pre-existence in the case of Jesus, it must be allowed the same force in the following statement in reference to John the Baptist: "There was a man sent from God whose name was John" (John 1:6). You are compelled in such a case to speak as if there was a pre-existence: e.g. ,Have you built your house? Have you printed your circulars? Have you engaged your apprentices? These questions, wrongly construed, would prove the existence of the house, circulars and apprentices before the acts had been put forth which call them into existence.