The Nature of Jesus? Temptations and the Bible

of sinful flesh” (Phil 2:6,7 and Ro 8:3). Jesus was not created – “but a body Thou hast prepared for Me” (Heb 10:5). Jesus was/is God inside a human body. Since God cannot be tempted by evil, and Jesus is God, it appears to me that the temptations He faced during His lifetime in Judea were either a function of His physical body … or being in a body in this age … or both.

The Function of a Physical Body

It is possible the physical body may be capable of illegal lusts – apart from a sin nature. But, as I have always had a sin nature, I do not know what a body free of one would experience. I do know I can be walking along just fine one minute and then – wham! – a particular female presence, or fragrance – and the war is on. No thinking or decisions – just reaction … of the flesh flushing. Recently, after such an assault, I came out the other side, chuckled a bit and looked up toward God and said, “Boy, this stuff sure has a lot of power.” I do realize such personal reactions may be the result of training my body into defilement over years of “practice.” But, this also may be the result of a sin inclination – a negative component of my personal metaphysical imprint. I will have to wait until The Judgment to know all this for sure. I do hope God will allow me to see what I was actually dealing with in my time in this “present evil age” (Ga 1:4) as He untwists all my contorted knots in my final deliverance. I do not know if Jesus struggled with such flesh assaults – in a body without a sin nature. There is no Biblical evidence that He did. All the speculation about a Mary Magdalene affair, or possible homosexual contacts, is

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