Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3030. The impeccability of Christ, the conviction that Jesus was actually unable to sin, raises an honest and important question. If He could not possibly have sinned, were His temptations in the wilderness and throughout His ministry genuine, or simply theatre performed for the disciples’ benefit? I want to take that question seriously rather…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 3008. Whether the impeccability of Christ is actually true has occupied theologians for most of church history, and I understand why the question keeps resurfacing. If Jesus could not have sinned, was His temptation in the wilderness genuine? If He could have sinned, what does that imply about His deity, and about the security…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2030. God and temptation seem, on the surface, to sit uneasily together in Scripture, since James tells us plainly that God cannot be tempted, and yet the Gospels tell us just as plainly that Jesus was tempted in the wilderness. How do both of these claims stand together without contradiction? This question comes up…