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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: is it possible for Jesus to have sinned? |
Bible Note: Hi Brad, Great post! I’ve done some thinking on this subject with the following in mind from the Latin, “Not able to sin and able not to sin”. I think the zinger spells it out in the book of James. James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. The word enticed, in the English, is from the Koine Greek word, DELEAZOMENOS, meaning to entice, as with a lure used in fishing. Our lust patters come to us from the old sin nature residing within our flesh or bodies. Since Jesus Christ didn’t have an old sin nature, due to the fact that He was not born from the seed of Adam, I classify the temptation in the wilderness as a “satanic fishing party” because Christ didn’t have any lust patterns therefore He didn’t fall for the bait. Matthew 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Satan threw everything he had at Christ and the lures didn’t work: Namely, the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. Jesus used the offensive weapon, the sword of the Spirit, i.e. the Word of God to defeat the attacks, which shows us that we can do the same thing with the knowledge of Bible doctrine residing in our soul, combined with the filling of the Spirit. 1 Cor. 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape,------ that ye may be able to bear it. The function of the shield of faith and the Sward of the Spirit. My spin on it, CDBJ |