I am at a stumbling block in my faith, and I need another Christian's perspective in order to help me understand this better, if you might indulge me. Most, if not all Christians believe that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life. This is not to say that he did not take our sins upon Himself, because He did, but those sins were not of His doing.

What perplexes me is the idea that Jesus Christ can be thought of as experiencing the human condition in all that it entails, without ever having sinned Himself. An essential part of the human experience is failure, that surrender to the temptation of sin in order to fully experience what it feels like to fall.

We as humans must experience this to know what guilt feels like, and to seek forgiveness for our wrongs. Otherwise, we would have no way to differentiate between what is right and what is wrong, and to learn from our life mistakes. This is how we grow to be better people, and to live closer to God's path for us.

Christians, what do you think?