Not being YHWH, I would think that the spirit that Jesus had before he was anointed was still in him. But the spirit he received took over. The express image was used for the creation. He is a form of God, Phil 2, godlike, powerful, full of knowledge. So much of a change in Jesus that he needed to go into the wilderness to adjust. It was then that he was tempted. God can not be tempted but Jesus was. Do you question that fact. Kind of destroys your Trinity doesn't it?
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First, thank you for your answer... but I'm still not sure on what it means for "the spirit he received took over." Was it still "him?" Did he have his own free will and was just aided by this created godlike spirit? Or did it completely take over and allow Jesus to watch like a spectator, or only "take control" at critical points or whenever Jesus might do something wrong?
Second, God can be tempted. It is not written, "
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah?" Jesus quoted that passage from
Deuteronomy 6:16 when he answered the devil in the wilderness (see Matthew 4:7).
So I have another question here for you, off of point two. If I were to speak to God, and say "Hey, would you let me off the hook if I bribe you with this fifty dollars?" ...
did I just destroy God like Captain Kirk vs. an alien intelligence that explodes in paradox? After all, I just tempted God. Let's treat that question as rhetorical, and I'll get to the real question. Of course that doesn't destroy God. When you tempt God it doesn't make him not God. The passage in James that you are thinking of means "God cannot be successfully tempted with evil" not that someone attempting to tempt him destroys his Godhood.
So the question, was Jesus successfully tempted with evil? If yes, then I will agree that he was not God. If no, then perhaps there was something wrong with your proof, as it requires that Deuteronomy 6:16 be set aside (as well as the common sense thought experiment above) for it to function. The proof was a word trick gone bad, no hard feelings, just set it aside and we can move to better questions (I admit there are better questions.)
Point and question three, what do you mean by "Kind of destroys my Trinity?" Please show me any place on this board where I have declared allegiance to a Trinity, or said anything inconsistent with "I believe the Bible is sufficient and it does not speak of a Trinity." Have you not noticed that I have been attacked for the past week because of that? I am not asking you to believe anything because it is "orthodox" or "written in the creeds" or "Trinity." I ask you (that is, anyone) to believe because of what is written in scripture.
Let's hop back to Jesus in the wilderness once more. Jesus is in the Wilderness, and Satan questions whether he is really the Son of God. So he tries to tempt him. How does Jesus rebuke him
for trying to tempt him?
Matthew 4:7 KJV
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Jesus said unto him, It is written again,
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
See, that can also be read in this way, "
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, I am the Lord thy God." Actually, all of Christ's answers to the devil follow that pattern. Watch closely:
"make these stones bread!" ... answered with, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
Jesus was the Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, he also said that he was the bread that came down from heaven.
"bow down and worship me" ... answered with "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."
Jesus is the Lord God, Satan should rather worship him. Jesus did not worship anyone else, there is no reference in scripture that says Jesus ever worships, but
Jesus did allow, permit, and encourage others to worship him. The angels and apostles never allowed themselves to be worshiped.
Hebrews 1:6 KJV
(6) And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith,
And let all the angels of God worship him.
If we believe Jesus that one should only worship the Lord thy God, then how come he accepted worship from others, and how come it is written that the angels of God worship him? That's not Trinity, that's just scripture. Sorry for getting carried away, I really did just mean to ask about the spirit-takeover thing, got a little riled with being called "Trinity" after suffering abuse for the opposite.