The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

^st. Jam« < onr concupiscence ^ had no part m His
temptations, but emphati'
cally in this also, that the notion of sin has to be
wholly excluded
from our thoughts of Christ's temptations.^
To obtain, if we can, a clearer understanding of
this subject, two points must be kept in view.
Christ's was real, though unftllen Human Nature ;
and Christ's Human was in inseparable union with
His Divine Nature. We are not attempting to
explain these mysteries, nor at present to vindicate
them; we are only arguing from tiie standpoint of
the Grospels and of Apostolic teaching, which
proceeds on these premisses—and proceeding on
them, we are trying to understand the Temptation
of Christ. Now it is dear, that human nature, that of
Adam before his fall, was created both sinless and
peccable. If Christ's Human Nature was not like
ours, but, morally, like thali of Adam before his
fall, then must it likewise have been both sinless