We Christians constantly draw a distinction in the minds of those we preach to, between the deity of Christ and the humanity of Christ. Muslims ask me: "How could God die?", "How could God be hungry?", "How could God be weary?"; to which I answer that Jesus Christ had two nature: God and man. In his humanity, he could die, suffer hunger and thirst and fatigue, though not in his deity.
It's the same answer to the question: "Could Christ have sinned?". The answer is "yes". The counter is: "How could God sin?". The reply is: "Christ, in his human nature only, could have sinned, though not in his divine nature", thus preserving the truth that God cannot be tempted with evil (Ja.1:13) yet without making a empty charade out of Jesus Christ's monumental strife and victory over sin, as a man; which makes me desire to worship him all the more.
YET
YET
YET
"... yet without sin." Hebrews 4:15 partial
What is the "yet" there for?
Could not it be, in spite of being a man with the potential to sin, He did not.
Why is He our holy priest? Because as a man He did not sin.
He did not sin BECAUSE He is God, He did not sin because He chose not to sin.
"...nevertheless not my will but thine be done." Luke 22:42
He is God.
He is a man.
For we have not
an high priest
which cannot
be touched
with the feeling of our infirmities;
but was in all points
tempted like as we are,
yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15
only if you make Jesus Christ two separate Persons, rather than natures! Jesus Christ is ONE Person, 100% fully God in His Nature, and 100% Man, in His Nature. The God-Man. It is foolish for anyone to suggest that when the devil tested Jesus Christ, that this was only done to His "Human Nature"! He IS the ONE Person, not divided! Without this being understood, people will keep on falling into the error of the possibility of Jesus Christ "sinning".
We just had a thread on this very topic, and the same old answers are being posted on here, by the majority who simply do NOT understand the Bible teaching on the Person of The Lord Jesus Christ. It is complete nonsense that Jesus Christ, God manifested in the flesh, could have succumbed to temptation, but somehow did not. No one has explained how this is possible for Jesus to have done all His earthly life, if, as it is assumed, He was "like unto us"?