Christ’s Ichor? - Dr. DeHaan’s Unusual and Unorthodox Teaching
I was recently pointed to Dr. DeHaan’s teaching on Christ’s blood. ( link ) Laced into his views of original sin, the virgin birth and the incarnation are the ideas that human blood is sinful and Christ’s blood was not human. Dr. DeHaan states: While all men from Adam to this day are born with Adam’s sinful nature, and, therefore, are subject to the curse and eternal death, the Man Jesus was without sin and, therefore, DEATHLESS until He took the sin of others upon Himself and died THEIR death. Now while Jesus was of Adam's race according to the flesh yet He did not inherit Adam's nature. This alone will prove that sin is not transmitted through the flesh. It is transmitted through the blood and not the flesh, and even though Jesus was of the "Seed of David according to the flesh" this could not make him a sinner. Jesus Christ died. He died others death in the sense of the death they deserved, not in the sense of their physical death. Further, ...