Bible Question: Could Jesus have sinned? Could Jesus have really ever wanted to sin? Were the temptations that Jesus faced intense and real? (As a departure from the norm :-), please include biblical references). --Hank |
Bible Answer: Jesus could not have sinned. He is perfect. Hebrews 7:26 says he is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. 2Co 5:21 says he knew no sin. He did not know how to sin. It was foreign to his nature. 1Jo 3:5 says that in him is no sin. It is not in him to sin. We sin because we are sinners. In Mark 7:21 Jesus says himself that it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that we produce evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. "All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." These things are in us and temptation draws them out. There is no such thing in Jesus. He is not a sinner. Jesus is God. And according to 1Jo 1:5, God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. James says (1:13) that God cannot be tempted with evil. Since Jesus is God, he cannot go against God, for that would be to go against himself. It is a logical and moral impossibility. Jesus was tested the way gold is tested, as in a fire (as in 1Pe 1:7) to prove that it is gold. His temptation, in all points proved, that he is completely pure. His temptation was as real and as intense as Nebuchadnezzar’s burning fiery furnace in Daniel 3. He went through both of them and came out without a singe. That’s because he is the Son of God. We must anticipate now that some will come to say if the possibility of sin was not there then the temptation was not real. Let us try to preempt that now by saying here that Jesus’ temptation was a testing, as in a fire, to prove what he was made of. It was not a drawing away or an enticement, as James describes temptation to sin (James 1 :14). Jesus is God, and God is not tempted with evil (verse 13). If Jesus could have sinned he could not be our Savior then or our High Priest now. But, thanks be to God, we have a high priest which was in all points tempted like as we are, and proven. He is without sin. |
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