7759	Forums / Theology Forum / In What Manner Was Christ Tempted?	on: March 07, 2007, 12:13:56 PM
Quote I don't think I am alone in seeing a connection between temptation and the flesh. The tempting appealing to our sin nature. So I have a hard time wrapping my intellect around how a temptation exists without that accompanying fleshly desire. Though in the case of Christ that is the case. But, I know that Adam and Eve sinned, and did not have a sin nature before the fall. So, in reality temptation is a thing that exist of itself separate of our flesh? Thats interesting to ponder, though I really want to understand more about what it meant that Christ "was tempted in every way" .   There is a difference between being human and being human and corrupted. Christ was fully human, He grew in knowledge and understanding, he was hungry, thirsty, tired, weak, expended energy, He experienced every human desire that we experience, but the difference was He had no corruption in His parts. The temptation was about His human desires. Our temptation is about our corrupted human desires , ie we have like a virus in our desires. We have the virus of sin. All of our desires are mixed with -us and the regenerated part.  Christ was tempted by Satan who is evil and by sinners who are evil. He was also tempted in the greatest suffering that anyone could possibly go through. Because He was God when He suffered in His humanity He could withstand a lot more suffering than the average joe because  He was filled with the Holy Spirit in His humanity, and He had more of the Spirit than any other human being. Yet His human nature and His divine nature never mixed. He was not able have greater strength by His divine power from His divine nature being mixed. Yet He was able to read peoples hearts, he did all the miracles.