Was it possible that Jesus was sinning?
This question cannot be answered by a direct declaration of the Writing. We have to deduce it of the Bible using the interpretive beginning “for good and necessary consequences”.
On the one hand, nobody would affirm that being Jesus hundred per cent God (Juan 1:1) could sin. God cannot sin. At the same time, nevertheless, the Bible says that Jesus took for himself the real human nature. He was in the same condition and Adam's situation before sinning. But different from Adam, he also was possessing a Divine nature unable to sin. Christ was done in every fellow man to us but without sin (Hebrews 4:15). That does not mean that could not be touched by the devil, but it could not sin. The reasons are:
1. It was the God's plan from the eternity that Jesus was never sinning.
2. Jesus knew the terrible calamity that Adam's sin had caused to the world, and he came to revertir this reality.
3. The human nature in Christ is different from the Divine one, but it is not separates of her in his person like God's Son.
4. He knew that was the will of the Father who was resisting and conquering the temptation.
5. Jesus only chose from the eternity to do the God's will, and only in doing it was his pleasure.
Now then, by no means let's fall down in the error of minimizing Jesus's temptation. True it is that he did not take a sinful nature as we that was attracting it towards the sin, but that does not mean that Satan in person was not putting any more pressure in the temptation than to us. He, as the first Adam before the fall, did not have a sinful nature, but that does not mean that was not touched by the same devil any more than he was Adam. To major resistance, major should have been the force and intensity of the temptation.
Finally, let's not forget that Christ did not pass for the first Adam for a trial period to choose between the obedience and the disobedience. Christ came to obey the Father conquering the sin and the temptation. To guarantee for his people the victory on the sin and Satan. In the last analysis, Christ did not have the skill of sinning, but the skill of not sinning for having in his person a human nature inseparably joined the Divine one.
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