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To: Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; Mad Dawg
The Bible is a testimony FROM God TO us. I'm pulling out my hair here

You mean we believe the Bible is a testimony from God to us?

No, on many topics you have been given scriptural proofs from many posters, and you have rejected them

They were not convincing. Sorry. You have been given proofs by others and you rejected them.

Jesus WAS tempted, just as the Bible tells us and Paul explains. Most followers of Christ have learned that Christ fully understands all of our problems, and that He relates to us on a human level. The demonstration in the desert is evidence

The temptation of Jesus was a charade if He did not have the potential, in His human nature, to succumb just as it would be a charade if He, in His human nature, did not possess the free will to resist. He made the choice that Adam didn't. If He resisted because of His divine nature, then He was not fully human, and His temptation was a charade.

4,343 posted on 03/19/2008 7:34:25 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; blue-duncan; Mad Dawg
FK: "The Bible is a testimony FROM God TO us. I'm pulling out my hair here."

You mean we believe the Bible is a testimony from God to us?

I'll tell you what, you believe what you believe and I'll know what I know. :)

The temptation of Jesus was a charade if He did not have the potential, in His human nature, to succumb just as it would be a charade if He, in His human nature, did not possess the free will to resist. He made the choice that Adam didn't. If He resisted because of His divine nature, then He was not fully human, and His temptation was a charade.

I suppose you have to say that since your side thinks that man has to use his inner goodness, apart from God, to make his own decisions. I suppose you have Jesus apart from God for the same reasons. Jesus was only ever "apart" from God once, and it wasn't during the temptation.

4,608 posted on 03/30/2008 1:05:30 PM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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