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Is He Perfect' It is vital to our theology that Jesus was sinless. For only if Jesus was sinless could his death have been a vicarious substitution and fulfill God’s redemptive plan for man. If Jesus had not been sinless, then it would mean that he died for his own sins and not those of mankind. Had Jesus died for his own sins then his death could not have been accepted by the Father as a vicariously substitution for the punishment and judgment each of us are entitled to receive. Even though there is no serious debate that Jesus was anything but sinless, theologians have discussed the question of whether Jesus could have sinned if He had wanted. This is called the peccability of Christ. The opposing argument, i.e., impeccability, being that even if he had wanted, Jesus could not have sinned. Upon first consideration, one might view this question as being trivial; something to simply keep the theologians “out of mischief” when they have nothing better to do. However, there are some very appropriate reasons for examining this assumed perfection.. Examining the issue of Christ’s peccability/impeccability is so that we might obtain a better understanding and a more in depth knowledge about jesus, christ, sin, question, understanding, victory, peccability, impeccability, impeccability, impact, been, sinless, peccability, mankind, jesus, human, god, better, view, theology, theologians, sinned, man, knowledge, examining, debate, christ’s, angels, about, wanted, virgin, very, union, temptation, tells, substitution