Using I John 2:15-17 as our model, we can see how Eve established the world's response, and how Jesus re-established God's response to temptation. First, in a state of innocence, potentially-perfect Eve SAW in the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil:
SEEING what she considered possibilities, into sin she plunged by eating its fruit. Second, experiencing 40 days and nights of fasting that reduced his physical body-mass to dangerous levels, Jesus SAW:
And answered Satan's temptation with God's Word every time. He SAW, but without:
Two models on how to respond to temptation exist, then:
The apostolic model followed Christ's:
Summary: Christians can either rise to God's expectation or fall to our soul's desires. Which will we choose? Which will we have as our goal every time tempted? Fini
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