Subject: Things people THINK in the BIBLE but not |
Bible Note: Stultis, I don't know that I agree completely with your statement "that He had every opportunity to sin". Again, scripture tells us in Heb. 4:15 that He was "tempted", not that he had opportunity to sin. There is a big difference in wording. The Commentary Critical says this "without sin—Greek, “choris,” “separate from sin” (Heb 7:26). If the Greek “aneu” had been used, sin would have been regarded as the object absent from Christ the subject; but choris here implies that Christ, the subject, is regarded as separated from sin the object [Tittmann]. Thus, throughout His temptations in their origin, process, and result, sin had nothing in Him; He was apart and separate from it [Alford]." Further, what do you mean by "If he could not choose to sin, there would be no temptation following his forty days fast in the wilderness, nor a temptation to flee his course when Peter (Satan) told him never to go to Jerusalem." I don't see any scriptural basis or proof for such an assertion. Temptation does not logically entail choosing to sin- especially when it deals with the Lord Jesus Christ (1 John 3:5). Scripture tells us He KNEW no sin. "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Cor. 5:21) Would you care to clarify? Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |