How was Jesus tempted?

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I don’t understand how we can say Jesus was tempted if he had no attraction to sin and if he being God is unable to sin by his very nature.

Can anyone explain this to me? :confused:
 
The temptation was appealing to His human nature. Being fully God and fully human, He did have a divine will that was immune to temptation, but His human will was not immune.
 
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The temptation was appealing to His human nature. Being fully God and fully human, He did have a divine will that was immune to temptation, but His human will was not immune.
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Rocks_91 said:
I don’t understand how we can say Jesus was tempted if he had no attraction to sin and if he being God is unable to sin by his very nature.

Can anyone explain this to me? :confused:
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Satan in his tempting of the Lord was presenting Jesus with all the earthly possibilities open to Him; this was a temptation from outside of Himself. IOW, it was an urging from outside, not a desire rising from concupiscience (and He wasn’t subject to concupiscience, i.e., the internal temptations arising from a fallen nature).

Christ has the fully human nature, i.e., one not wounded by sin. His humanity is therefore graced and in harmony with the Divine. For us to be tending toward sin is for us NOT to be fully human; therefore we are not the vantage point of healing of our wounded nature but He is. If follows that for Him to heal our infirmity He must bring health to our infirmity. We can’t give what we don’t have, so He must have this health of being fully human, i.e., in harmony with God in order to give it to us by grace. He therefore could not sin, which makes him perfectly human, not less human.
 
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