Hey I'm Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast. And there's another really good question on the subreddit that came in.

It's Reddit.com, our slash TMBH podcast.

Some of you use that.

The conversation has been great. All right, the question goes like this is from Dustin J Coates,

and the question is very simply,

was it possible for Jesus to fail the temptation?

I want to read you what he wrote

because I thought it was

smart. Dustin said I should say up front I think it was possible. I'm just not sure

how or what the consequences of failure would have been. On the one hand, I have a hard time understanding how God could ever

sin. Isn't God the standard that we use to define what sin is? It's not like there's a higher

objective right and wrong that God is adhering to in that case that standard would be

above God so if sin is just everything that doesn't align with God's nature or

will then how would God sin it's like asking how could light be dark. It starts to get nonsensical.

On the other hand, I feel like it had to be possible for Jesus to give into the

temptation or the whole scenario becomes meaningless. If Jesus felt no real

temptation, then he was just checking a box to say that he had been tempted,

which feels wrong, and scripture doesn't support that anyway.

Hebrew claims Jesus was tempted just like everyone else.

So if Jesus was both fully God and fully human, then how do you reconcile those two things?

And I've been seeing some of these really smart questions come in and I have a few people in my life who I really trust and who think about this stuff.

And I had my friend Aaron Utecked on the other day to answer one of these.

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