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NASB | Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize and understand our weaknesses and temptations, but One who has been tempted [knowing exactly how it feels to be human] in every respect as we are, yet without [committing any] sin. |
Subject: How can Jesus be tempted if He is God? |
Bible Note: Hello, Joe. You understand modalism. I understand modalism. You understand Triunity. I understand Triunity. There have been many, many, many postings lately by some who may well understand neither. Let me post brief definitions of some terms relative to this controversy that has all but paralyzed this Forum in recent days. For starters, the term "Oneness" that has been bandied about is not a legitimate term in any theological lexicon I know of....First I am going to list four "isms" that orthodox Christian teaching has considered heretical since Apostolic times. (1) MODALISM maintains that there is one God who manifests Himself successively as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit but who is not contemporaneously all three (2) SUBORDINATIONISM views the Son and Holy Spirit as essentially and eternally subordinate to the Father. (3) TRITHEISM (not to be confused with Triunity) asserts that there are three gods rather than one God who is in three Persons (4) UNITARIANISM rejects the Christian doctrine of the Triunity and of the full deity of Jesus Christ. With too high a view of human reason and too low a view of Scripture, this heresy also denies other important Christian doctrines.....The "Oneness" idea appears to be a confusing amalgam of various of the foregoing concepts.....What is left, then, is the orthodox Christian teaching, fully supported by Scripture: TRIUNITY, the distinctive and essential Christian doctrine that there is one God in three Persons. The Father is God. The Son is God. The Holy Spirit is God. There is a disctinction between the Persons so that the Father is not the Son, the Father is not the Spirit, and the Son is not the Spirit. Each is a Person. The Holy Spirit is not to be envisioned as a mere force or influence. This is the teaching of the Bible. This is the teaching that has been held dear by orthodox Christianity for nearly two thousand years....let us now move forward to other matters. Have we not had enough of this one for now?....Thank you, Joe, for your fine posts and for Biblical answers to Biblical questions. May God bless. --Hank |