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Tom said:
If it is true that as Hodge says (and I believe it is) “He was a true man He must have been capable of sinning.” Then does it not follow that If He was a true man He must have been capable of dieing eternally in hell?
I don't see an alternative to this, because if hypothetically Christ had sinned, would not that have been the outcome both for Him and the entire human race?
And do you see a problem somehow, in this hypothetical situation you have come up with?

What I see is that you have added something which should not be there, i.e., "would not that have been the outcome for ... the entire human race?". IF the Christ had failed by sinning, then the outcome for the human race wouldn't have changed since it was already under judgment and the wrath of God.

Secondly, this "hypothetical" situation you have come up with did in fact happen but not because the Lord Christ sinned but because He gave Himself vicariously and substitutionally for those whom the Father gave Him, who were already under condemnation, He suffering the pain and torment of eternal Hell for them on the cross. (Isa 53:4-6, 9-12; Rom 8:3; 2Cor 5:21; 1Pet 2:22-24; 3:18)

In His grace,

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