Essay On Jesus Be Tempted

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The first objection of the divinity of Jesus is that God cannot be tempted, Jesus was tempted, therefore Jesus cannot be God. This objection argues that Jesus could not possibly be divine because he was tempted to take Satan’s false promises. This argument implies that Jesus sinned. Our Catholic teachings tell us that Jesus never sinned. If Jesus never sinned, then he could not have possibly been tempted by the devil.
This objection of the divinity of Jesus Christ can be divided into the three parts. The first part is God cannot be tempted. This part declares that God cannot be tempted. We know this statement to be true because James 1:13 says that. “Let no one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted by God; He Himself does not tempt anyone."1 This passage states that God cannot tempt or be tempted.
The second part of this objection is “Jesus was tempted.” This objection is referring to Matthew 4:1-11. This passage says that Satan came to Jesus in the desert and attempted to tempt him. These verses tell us that Jesus refused Satan’s offers. We do not know if Jesus was actually tempted by Satan’s offers. We do not know this because we do not know what was going on in Jesus’ head at that time. We do not know if Jesus actually considered taking Satan’s offers. To say that Jesus was tempted by Satan’s offers is to say that Jesus sinned. John 3:5 says that Jesus came to save us from sin and never sinned himself.2 This Bible passage proves that Jesus was not tempted by Satan’s offers because he was incapable of sin.
The third and final part of this objection against the divinity of Jesus says that Jesus cannot be God if the last two parts of the objection are true. The first two parts of this objection and be proven false through sc...

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...dditionally, by this statement Jesus was not opposing to his divine nature but instead, simply stating and reassuring the fact he was also man.
Next, the obvious rebuttal to this statement questioning Jesus’s divinity can be found in Hebrews 2:9 where is blatantly announces that when jesus was created, he was made to be lower than angels who in return are lower than gods. However it says, for a little while, indicating this state of being only to be temporary. in this human state, christ still maintains his 100% divinity yet the deciding factor is still the fact if his human nature. a comparison can be found in the coexisting of all human beings, no one is truly greater than one another yet counting on their relationship at that given moment, one may have the obligation to serve the other. A website, gotquestions.org, describes it as a “Subservient Relationship”11

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