3. In order to save us, did Christ also become subject to death? Hebrews 2:9.
NOTE: ‘“And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.” [Philippians 2:8.] And now compare the above with Hebrews 2:9: “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” These texts show that Christ took upon Himself man’s nature, and that as a consequence He was subject to death. He came into the world on purpose to die; and so from the beginning of His earthly life, He was in the same condition that the men are in whom He died to save.” E. J. Waggoner: The Gospel in the book of Galatians, page 60.
4. What was the purpose of Christ’s incarnation? Hebrews 2:14.
NOTE: ‘As therefore Christ’s mission is to destroy the works of the devil, to put away sin, it follows that as long as there is a vestige of sin remaining, His mission is not accomplished. Whatever therefore tends to perpetuate sin, tends just so far to delay the accomplishment of the mission of Christ. And if by any means sin were made eternal, the inevitable result would be to nullify and subvert the mission of Christ. Now that is exactly what is done by the doctrine of the natural immortality of the soul. The very meaning of the word immortal being “not subject to death,” it follows that if the soul be immortal, it must live eternally, whatever its condition may be; and from this again it follows that when the awful sentence is pronounced, “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still,” whatsoever soul it be that shall then be unjust must live so to all eternity; which is simply to make sin eternal, and so to subvert the mission of Christ.’ A. T. Jones: Signs of the Times, December 24, 1885.