7760	Forums / Theology Forum / In What Manner Was Christ Tempted?	on: March 07, 2007, 08:26:56 AM
Quote So what was the nature of the temptation Christ faced? Strictly intellectual? For instance, when Satan met him in the wilderness and made offers to Him to basically circumvent His Father's will, was that a felt temptation or just a simple appeal to His will and mind that He rejected without the kind of draw we feel in the flesh. Did His temptation feel like ours during His ministry? Or was it always just a intellectual thing that He turned down with a determination of the mind? Also, I find it interesting that if a theological topic comes up that involves something to do with US, we get more excited than simply discussing something that is for the most part strictly about Christ. Christ resisted to the point of blood coming out of His pours. Have you resist like that?   Temptation starts in the mind, it is what we are pleased with is what we choose. It is not strictly a legal dimension. I dont know where you got the idea that i was saying that it was strictly from the mind. It is a desire as James says that we give into. We are sinners therefore we sin, Christ was sinless but in His passive obedience to the Father He endure the full pangs of temptation for us and resisted them perfectly. And He is familiar with being tempted. He resisted the full force of temptation. Because He existed in eternity in glory, sin was such an offense to Him that we could not fathom. It was so much more of an offense to Him than it was to us. If the offense was that great dont you think that Christ experience an unfathomable grief as a man?