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I would like to offer my opinion, and some Scripture, that I think supports it. Granted, I have never studied, or prayed, about this topic in detail.
The point of Satan's temptation was to get Christ to employ His divine power that He had set aside to become humble for our sakes.
Philipians 2:7
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
John teaches that Christ was tempted in three ways as we are 1 John 2:16
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Certainly Christ could have called His angels at any point...even when He was dealing with the Pharisees. He was constantly not wanting it to be known who He was and telling others do not tell, or slipping away before He was made a King...Only upon entering Jerusalem did HE make Himself known to all deliberately...He wanted our attention on His death.
Anyway, He submitted to God, and in that submission became man, and in that human-ness was truly human. However Christ was, how we strive to be; He did not sin willfully in the flesh, because of the Father in Him. I do think Satan tempted Him in the flesh hoping to thwart God's redemption plan...in that sense, Christ overcame temptation, and even the angels came to minister to Him, because his thoughts were of the flesh, and yet He resisted with the Word of God, and kept his flesh from even a sinful thought.
He was truly free from the sinful nature of man, and His will was not directed by that...it was free in the flesh, as Adam's was. So, in that sense, the temptation was REAL, and the resistance was REAL. So, because the Father was in Him, He was able to resist even in thought, as we will be able to when we have new mortality. Christ used the Word to combat satan for that reason, and was tempted as Adam and Eve were, in His flesh ...lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, and pride of life. He acted here, by the Holy Spirit, and His own deity was in the form of submission to God...So, He was both fully God, and fully man, but not using the very divine power that satan was tempting Him to use...So, I believe He was fully tempted in His flesh, and resisted because the Father was in Him, and to have used His divine power to even resist, would have been to fall into the temption that satan was giving.
A side note, as believers, we are free in our spirits once we are reborn. God does not tempt us beyond what we are able to resist. However, our flesh is still bound by sin...we all know Paul's take on this. The Lord bless you.
I would like to offer my opinion, and some Scripture, that I think supports it. Granted, I have never studied, or prayed, about this topic in detail.
The point of Satan's temptation was to get Christ to employ His divine power that He had set aside to become humble for our sakes.
Philipians 2:7
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
John teaches that Christ was tempted in three ways as we are 1 John 2:16
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Certainly Christ could have called His angels at any point...even when He was dealing with the Pharisees. He was constantly not wanting it to be known who He was and telling others do not tell, or slipping away before He was made a King...Only upon entering Jerusalem did HE make Himself known to all deliberately...He wanted our attention on His death.
Anyway, He submitted to God, and in that submission became man, and in that human-ness was truly human. However Christ was, how we strive to be; He did not sin willfully in the flesh, because of the Father in Him. I do think Satan tempted Him in the flesh hoping to thwart God's redemption plan...in that sense, Christ overcame temptation, and even the angels came to minister to Him, because his thoughts were of the flesh, and yet He resisted with the Word of God, and kept his flesh from even a sinful thought.
He was truly free from the sinful nature of man, and His will was not directed by that...it was free in the flesh, as Adam's was. So, in that sense, the temptation was REAL, and the resistance was REAL. So, because the Father was in Him, He was able to resist even in thought, as we will be able to when we have new mortality. Christ used the Word to combat satan for that reason, and was tempted as Adam and Eve were, in His flesh ...lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, and pride of life. He acted here, by the Holy Spirit, and His own deity was in the form of submission to God...So, He was both fully God, and fully man, but not using the very divine power that satan was tempting Him to use...So, I believe He was fully tempted in His flesh, and resisted because the Father was in Him, and to have used His divine power to even resist, would have been to fall into the temption that satan was giving.
A side note, as believers, we are free in our spirits once we are reborn. God does not tempt us beyond what we are able to resist. However, our flesh is still bound by sin...we all know Paul's take on this. The Lord bless you.
