How did Jesus experience temptation?
The choices that Jesus made in His life on Earth were always deliberate human choices, made with His human will on the basis of His human understanding and instincts and appetites and aspirations. However, He always had sufficient clarity of knowledge – supplied as necessary by an ongoing Divine Intuition – to be able to perceive what the right thing to do was. Hence, his human will was always aligned with justice, which is necessarily “the Will of God”. Some say that Jesus “had it easy” because He always received sufficient grace that it was impossible for Him to sin. This argument can mean two things: • It isn’t fair to expect ordinary (wo)man to live up to the ethical standard of Jesus. He was God, after all and both knew for certain what was right and had no real choice or ability to do anything different. He was strong and could not fail. We are weak and are bound to fail. • It isn’t fair for God to condemn ordinary (wo)man for sinning. He has no idea what it is like to be tempted
