Pilgrim,
Don’t take yourself so seriously (especially with a twit you don’t know in cyber land), you will end up with plugged coronaries and a shortened life. My point is that a person who believes like myself that God has chosen the elect as well as the reprobate prior to the “Fall”, would claim that Jesus’ death and resurrection was decided before time began to be efficacious for the elect. Even for the infralapsarian, Jesus' death and resurrection was for the elect prior to the actual event of the cross (those who look forward to the cross) as well for those after the event (who look back). I would say it is semantics that the elect are not elect until they believe, because before the foundation of the earth they were chosen to believe. So, how could Jesus have sinned if the plan was already in place to succeed? Mind you, Scripture is clear that he was tempted in every way, but the outcome was sure. In my pea brain mind, to say that He could have sin, negates the plan all ready in motion by the Almighty. This is why according to the article, most Calvinist (not all) would believe that Christ could not have failed (impeccability). To say that He could have sinned, means God the Father had to wait to see the outcome of the temptation of His Son, for the reality of salvation to occur (unless He had a plan “B”). Isn’t this a bit like Open Theism?
Geomic