More on the Nature of Christ

Luke 1:35

The angel answered, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the
Most High will overshadow you; and for this reason your holy offspring will be
called 'the Son of God.'

Luke 2:52

And as Jesus grew older He gained in both wisdom and stature, and in favour with
God and man.

Philippians 2:6-8

Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His
equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.

Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant
by becoming a man like other men.

And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die;
yes, to die on a cross.

Colossians 1:15-18

Christ is the visible representation of the invisible God, the Firstborn and Lord of
all creation.

For in Him was created the universe of things in heaven and on earth, things seen
and things unseen, thrones, dominions, princedoms, powers--all were created, and
exist through and for Him.

And HE IS before all things and in and through Him the universe is a harmonious
whole.

Moreover He is the Head of His Body, the Church. He is the Beginning, the
Firstborn from among the dead, in order that He Himself may in all things occupy
the foremost place.

Colossians 2:8-10

Take care lest there be some one who leads you away as prisoners by means of his
philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world's crude
notions instead of following Christ.
For it is in Christ that the fulness of God's nature dwells embodied, and in Him you
are made complete,and He is the Lord of all princes and rulers.

Hebrews 2:14-17

Since then the children referred to are all alike sharers in perishable human nature,
He Himself also, in the same way, took on Him a share of it, in order that through
death He might render powerless him who had authority over death, that is, the
Devil, and might set at liberty all those who through fear of death had been subject
to lifelong slavery.

For assuredly it is not to angels that He is continually reaching a helping hand, but it
is to the descendants of Abraham.

And for this purpose it was necessary that in all respects He should be made to
resemble His brothers, so that He might become a compassionate and faithful High
Priest in things relating to God, in order to atone for the sins of the people.

Since impeccability is not a Biblical term and is a doctrine derived by various scriptures,
all of which require a certain amount of hermenuetics in interpretation where one can
(indeed must!) choose which particular meaning or nuance of a particular word is meant
by the author (Holy Spirit) in the original language it may indeed be the case that more
emphasis need to made of Christ's humanity being truly tempted without sinning.

However if impeccability is one of Jesus' attributes then He could not have been truly
enticed since that would mean that He considered sinning and to be enticed means that
something in you "wants the pleasure" of the enticement whether you reisist or not. If
Jesus felt those urges then He was more human than we are wont to think, and there are
passages that at least in english hint at something of that sort of thing (His true
humanity), e.g. Luke 2:52;

And as Jesus grew older He gained in both wisdom and stature, and
in favour with God and man. (Weymouth)
See End Note.

Finally not once in all the Gospel narratives is Jesus portrayed with indecision or giving a
moments thought to sin, even in things that are not in themselves sin, such as turning a
stone into bread. This indicates that to have done that would have subverted the real
purpose of being in the wilderness.

What I mean is, why did the sinless Son of God participate in the "baptism of repentance"
as ministered through John and then be "led by the Spirit" to the wilderness for 40 days to
suffer utter privation?
Are the 40 days symbolic of Israel's 40 years wandering and failing to enter into God's
rest as referenced in Hebrews, and the hunger and thirst representative of theirs when
they put Him to the Test or to put it another way, when they tempted Him?, yet without
murmuring-even to turn down the suggestion (enticement) to miraculously provide His
own food and water as He had done for them, thus far exceeding even the minimal
expectation He had of those He had once rescued from Egypt?

Having accomplished that part of His purpose was He then tempted (not enticed) to
worship His own fallen lightbearer in Satan?;

And finally, what purpose to throw Himself off a great height? And why not just
obliterate Satan then?

In all these things He was offered the comfort of food, water, ease rather than the awful
price He came to pay and glory as the revealed "Messiah"-one whom the angels
themselves watch over, rather than the rejection that was sure to come; all without the
slightest change of course. So was He actually "tempted" to do any of those things or was
He going through the requisite testing as proof of His identity as the Annointed
Sinbearer?

End Note

This verse especially seems to indicate that Jesus, at least when young, did not possess
the divine attribute of omniscience and also progressively became the "Christ."

It is perhaps here that the "kenotic" theory does in fact hold water. That is perhaps God
the Son did in fact empty Himself of His "own" divinity to be filled with the Spirit as a
Human and to walk in perfection and obedience to His Fathers purpose. For how could
God's Son gain in anymore favor than He had eternally possessed? or grow in wisdom
when He was "the wisdom of God"? (I can see I will have to write another Thesis to
expand these ideas.)