Could Jesus Have Sinned?

[RJ]

This thread is a result of a recent "Live Chat" discussion about the possibility that Jesus could have sinned. As, with most Chat discussions, it goes too fast and with too many making comments, that much gets lost in the fray. So, here are some thoughts laid out in a more organized format.

No child of God will live a sin-proof life till after they die and leave this "body of death,” "For he that is dead is freed from sin" (Romans 6:7). Jesus was not sin-proof but sinless. If He were incapable of sinning while living in his body upon the earth, then the temptations that He overcame were not temptations at all. Jesus truly had to be able to sin in order to overcome sin. Otherwise, all the temptations would have been a lie and Jesus would have been part of that lie.

Jesus “was in ALL points tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15b). Temptation is based on having an unmet need, desire or want. When we do not have our needs met or in check, we are open to temptation. If you have no needs, desires or wants when the temptation is offered, you will turn it down flat. However, when your need, desire or want is great and the temptation presents itself, it’s a vastly different story. This is where the Fruit of the Spirit comes in to play; self control, patience, endurance, love, etc. (Galatians 5:22-25). If we do not choose to develop these areas, falling to temptation will be a way of life.

Yes Jesus, though very God, was at the same time very Human and had to capacity to sin. As an ordinary human, if you understand that perfectly, then you have no problems fully understanding all of God's miracles, like, the trinity, immaculate conception for examples.

Eventhough Jesus was fully human and, therefore, given free choice, He choose not to sin but, as compared to the rest of us, He was still an anomaly.
He was and will always remain unlike any human to ever exist, He was perfect in every way. Aside from the temptations of satan, Jesus lived His entire life with out sin. If He was fully human, how was that possible?
How? By His greatest example to us, His faith and relationship with the Father was also perfect.

John 5:19
19Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

So, yes if Jesus choose to, He could have sinned. If Jesus choose to he could have summoned the angels to take Him down of the cross. But, His love and relationship with the Father and His love for us was so pure that it was essentially an impossibilty.

His example is with us still, that the more we allow him to live His life through us, the closer we come to the father and the purer we become and the less impossibilities there are in our human lives.

God bless and thank God for this most wonderful of seasons and the reminder of all the free gifts we have in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Merry Christmas

 

[spirit1st]

With HIS mind and Nature He could not sin! Had He been able to ?He would have in the garden!
He was Greatly temped!
We have the Same type Mind and Nature in our Spirit! After Salvation!

 

[Giggles4God]

If Jesus was tempted, does that mean He could have sinned?

John 8

1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.

2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.


I put in bold some things. I'm going through this as I think.

Jesus said the 'Those among without sin...' part I believe because He had not sinned. Could He sin? Maybe, but He never did.

He was tempted in the wilderness, but He knew how to fight satan. He could battle satan well. Satan tried other times, too, but Jesus never wavered.

We can not truly know what Jesus could do since we can not know the mind of God. It is more than we can understand. We only see the glass darkly now...soon we will see face to face and then we will know. Praise God!

 

[spirit1st]

He had a body with Normal desires! These desires wanted !
He over came these desires as WE SHOULD!
Temptation simple means , His flesh wanted certain things which is normal! Yet HE, though HIS Spirit controlled HIS flesh!
All mankind's flesh has desires put in them by GOD!
allowing these desires to control us , is where our problems begin!

The Question is really? Could our LORD controll HIS flesh's desires or Not?


Then the Question becomes ? Can we ?
The answer is YES! HE being the example for All mankind!