If Jesus is God how could he be tempted?

[Trinity]

If Jesus was Tempted, how can He be God? The thing is, people take James 1:13 way out of context when they say God cannot be tempted, because we already know he ha been temped. God was tempted in the wilderness by the Israelites, and pharaoh.

Exodus 17:7 KJV

[stevehut]

If Jesus was Tempted, how can He be God?

To be an example for us, that's why. It shows us that even the devil knows the Scriptures.

[angels4u]

Amen!

[Guest antitox]

I believe that it means that someone may tempt God, but He does not respond to temptation - in other words, He really can't be tempted. I think it was quite a display when Jesus was in desperate need of food and physically weak after 40 days when satan tried to tempt Him. But the example that the Christ has shown us is evident of his deity and that he would never lower Himself to the desire of the flesh.

[pretzelperson]

If Jesus was Tempted, how can He be God? The thing is, people take James 1:13 way out of context when they say God cannot be tempted, because we already know he ha been temped. God was tempted in the wilderness by the Israelites, and

Edited November 1, 2004 by pretzelperson

[Trinity]

No, not really. I'm writing but on this subject the KJV is easier to explain this subject under the condition of people who don't think Jesus is God. I write with the NIV but since NIV doesn't explain it well enough on this subject I used both KJV and NIV, i don't shose one over the other, I just use them for different circumstances.

[His son]

Jesus faced the greatest temptation imaginable in the garden just before His crucifiction. He had told His Apostles that He could call for 12 legions of angels to deliver Him from the torture, and He prayed to His Father, and ours, if it be possible take this cup from me, and He asked 3 times. Don't think He wasn't tempted to tell God He couldn't go through with it, and call for those Angels. He knew everything they were going to do to Him, and you have to remember He had no more power to resist temptation than we do, and it is written that we have not resisted temptation, to the sweating of blood like He did, but it is possible for us.

[pretzelperson]

Jesus faced the greatest temptation imaginable in the garden just before His crucifiction. He had told His Apostles that He could call for 12 legions of angels to deliver Him from the torture, and He prayed to His Father, and ours, if it be possible take this cup from me, and He asked 3 times. Don't think He wasn't tempted to tell God He couldn't go through with it, and call for those Angels. He knew everything they were going to do to Him, and you have to remember He had no more power to resist temptation than we do, and it is written that we have not resisted temptation, to the sweating of blood like He did, but it is possible for us.

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This is a topic that I think my mind can't comprehend--the temptation of Jesus. Jesus was full God and full man: both natures were bound up in one man. It seems to me that if he was fully man, then he had the potential to sin. The potential to sin needed to be present for the temptation to be real. If Jesus did not have the potential to sin and the capability to be tempted was he really 100% man? But, if he was fully God then he could not have the potential to sin. If Jesus did sin, would it have been his "man" nature that sinned? I just don't know. If he could not have sinned, then his temptations could not have been real. What would have happened if Jesus did fail in the face of temptation and sin? Would I be here?

I really like you comment about Jesus praying to God and asking that there be another way. I think he was really praying that God change the His entire plan for the redemption of man: to provide another way. To start over with a new plan. Now this brings another question. If God can't change, then why did Jesus ask him to change? Was Jesus essentially asking God not only to change the plan of redemption, but also to change God's nature? Could God have changed the plan of salvation and redemption? If he did change the plan would the entire Old Testament picture of redemption and sacrifice be made void?