God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Legalists assume that one can obey God's commandments without salvation and/or in his own strength. Both ideas are false. Prayerful action...in the power of the Spirit is required for change to be biblical; all change that pleases God is the fruit of the Spirit.
Our Savior must be fully man in order to take the place of men and die in their stead, and He must be fully God in order for the value of His sacrificial payment to satisfy the demands of our infinitely holy God. Man He must be, but a mere man simply could not make this infinite payment for sin.
