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Don't you wanna come with me? Don't you wanna feel my bones on your bones?
It's only natural.

Don't you wanna swim with me? Don't you wanna feel my skin on your skin?
It's only natural.

WOW! Awesome topic! This never really ever crossed my mind as a possibility! biggrin This is just fantastic! :3 A real brain teaser.

Hmmm, from what I've read of Christ and of God. He made us in his image, we have emotions and God has emotions. Anger, love, sadness all that jazz. But he can't sin because sinning is basically doing something that is unholy, unholy being something against God's will. The simplest way I can put it, if God was to say look lustful on someone (which is impossible as we all know) lustful looking wouldn't be sin anymore would it? Because it wouldn't be out of his will therefore as he did it he wouldn't of sinned? Right? That make sense doesn't it? A scripture example of that was eating the fruit of the knew of the knowledge of good and evil. It was sin to eat the fruit simple because it was outside of God will. But because God is the same all the time, he can't change his will simple because his the same I believe that God exists in all states of time. He doesn't know how many times a girl going to break your heart because he can see into the future rather his at the future. Scripture I am at the end and at the beginning.

Now, as for Jesus on earth, he couldn't sin because to sin would to be changing God orginal will because he was God with us. But he could be tempted because Satan was the GREAT tempter. And it's his weapon against us.


All of them look as if it more TRYING to do stuff. To try entice or allure, to try and attract or appeal strongly to. It all trying not doing, if I was to try and tempt you to buy my car but you didn't what I was doing was tempting regardless of what you choose.

Jesus had emotions, and was outside the perfectness of heaven, it was quiet possible for satan to attack (tempt) him. Doesn't mean he would of ever succeeded but he STILL tried to tempted him. Therefore Jesus went through what we go through.

Though Satan would only tempt men. He is man's adversary, though he is no adversary of God's. He acts only with YHVH's permission.

Though there's the issue. If Jesus was both God and a man, Satan would not have tried to tempt him, but he would at the same time...

The only logical explainations I can give for Satan attempting to tempt Jesus is:
1) Jesus was always a man, and not God--at least during his lifespan he was not God.
2) The "Father" had Satan work to tempt the "son" as a test of faith, for that "man" aspect of him made him likely to sin. Though, Jesus passed that test, and may have very well been God in this case.

Though Satan can only act by YHVH's permission. So, would God have given him permission to attempt to tempt his fleshy incarnation?

Naw, I was thinking more of a:

Satan: YHVH, your son can't really be your son nor you...
YHVH: Ur, well, he is. Deal.
Satan: I don't believe it. He's just some man.
YHVH: Wanna bet?
Satan: Hellz yeeaahh. We'll see if he's really you and your son. I'm gonna go and mess with him now.
YHVH: Whatever. Enjoy being completely embarassed when I say I told you so. (Look! Consent!)
Satan: Psh, whatever.
YHVH: Go away now.

Pretty much, because Satan, unlike YVHV is not all knowing and he does have doubt as an imperfect being--especially when it comes to mankind. He doubted Job's faith and was wrong, just as he doubted Jesus's divinity and was wrong.

I think it might be a statement as well that Jesus as a man was able to resist temptation from Satan--and that human beings very well could resist said temptation too, if they are faithful enough. The man in Jesus is what people relate to, whereas the God in Jesus is what people respect and revere. So, you've got a role model, and an effective object of worship.

Blah. Babble.