OK, Christ was tempted. What does that mean, in the Bible?
If Christ was tempted, then what the hell was he thinking? Was there brief moment that Christ thought, "OK, it sounds good. I may want to give it a try"... ..."Nah. I'm Christ. I can't do that".
2006-07-05 16:53:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It means that being in human flesh he felt the urges to do things that were against God's will. It's like when the Devil tried to get Him to turn stones into bread. Jesus was hungry so he felt the physical urge to perform a miracle so that his hunger would be satisfied. But one of the reasons He couldn't do that was because then He wouldn't have gone through all of the trials of a human life and been a legitimate sacrifice for our sins. It wasn't in God's will for Him to cruise around snapping his fingers like some magician and satisfying His every need apart from the provision of God.
2006-07-05 17:00:09 · answer #1 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christ Meditated All Alone in the desert for 40 days--that is over a month.
The whole purpose of this was to test His Metal against the onslaughts of the Devil's whose scheme to steal souls away from God, which was the very reason He Came Into our world To Become the Messiah.
It is interesting that the very first thing inwhich Satan tries to tempt Jesus is it satisfy His Hunger after Fasting for such along period of time, & Christ Overcomes this--as He Does with the subsequent temptations.
Although Christ Is God, He Was Also Man. He Assumed Human Flesh, & therefore, to a certain extent vunerable to the Devil's temptations.
But through faith, Christ Had Triumphed.
2006-07-06 00:01:53 · answer #2 · answered by clusium1971 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christ was tempted 3 times by the Devil. That doesn't mean that Jesus would for one instant give in to what was placed before Him....it simply mean that Satan set these temptations.
Remember, as God, Jesus is incapable of sin- that would involve violating His own laws....and God is all perfect, so cannot do that.
Those temptations and His responses represent every temptation we have as humans.
The first temptation was to turn stones to bread. This represents the temptation to PHYSICAL PLEASURE. Jesus reminds us that what our bodies really need is to be in harmony with the will of God.
The second temptation was for Jesus to throw Himself from the top of the wall. This was a temptation to PRIDE. You know the old school yard " Oh yeah, well if you REALLY are the Son of God, why dontcha PROVE it to us????"
The third temptation was to worship Satan and have all the world as His own. This was a temptation to POWER. We can never acquire power on our own.
If you think about it, every single sin committed by a human being falls into at least one of these categories: PHYSICAL PLEASURE, PRIDE or POWER.
Recognizing this helps us head off temptations when they head our way....especially when we recall the perfect example Christ has already set for us!
REALLY good question!
2006-07-06 00:08:51 · answer #3 · answered by Mommy_to_seven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The devil tempted Christ to turn stones into bread after Christ fasted forty days, Satan also tempted Christ to fall down and worship him and he would give Christ all the land (people) He could see from the high mountain they were on. Satan also tempted Christ to let Himself fall, because angels could catch Him if he dashed His foot against a stone. Christ resisted all temptations.
2006-07-06 00:05:14 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somebody adks you to jump off a 500 ft bridge, would you "think about it?" then they say we will give you $10k for the effort. You have just been tempted by the offer. Nowhere does it say you did it because of the temptation, that decision is yours and yours alone.
Jesus was tempted by the world. He didn't sin. He quoted Scripture.
2006-07-06 00:15:08 · answer #5 · answered by n9wff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldnt be called a temptation if He wasnt actually tempted. Satan offered Him all the Kingdoms, tempted Him to call the angels down to save him. I believe Jesus was tempted to do these things and didn't do them because He chose to do God's will.
2006-07-05 23:57:04 · answer #6 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, I think that's exactly how it happened. the Bible tells us Christ was tempted on all points, just like we are. His final temptation was to skip out on the whole being executed thing. He cried and prayed for hours the night He got arrested, because of course He wasn't excited about it.
that was the whole point of Him taking human form. so He could overcome flesh, to prove to us it could be done. and also, so when we come to Him saying, "but you don't understand..." He can say, "yes I do understand."
2006-07-05 23:58:39 · answer #7 · answered by cirque de lune 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since He had no fallen nature, Jesus' temptation was not an internal emotional or psychological struggle, but an external attack by a personal being.
"And He was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan..." (Mark 1:13)
2006-07-06 00:03:47 · answer #8 · answered by Adamray 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It symbolizes all of us humans. We all have been tempted because of our desires of:
1. Something we do not have like food (starvation) and would we use evil to achieve that.
2. Something we have like power and would we use evil and abuse it.
3. Something we desire so much and would we blindly follow evil to get it. (richness, popularity, beauty, etc).
Jesus gives us an example of how to handle this. We should always be obidient to God and His words because it will keep us safe from the traps of the devil.
2006-07-06 00:00:54 · answer #9 · answered by Zenrin Y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It shows how we fall for temptation and we are imperfect. It also shows Christ's perfection by resitance to temptation.
2006-07-05 23:56:53 · answer #10 · answered by †ServantofGod† 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋