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Originally Posted by shag

My 12 yr. old son asked me a few weeks ago, "If James 1 reads that God cannot be tempted, and yet Jesus was tempted by satan, and we believe Jesus is God, how can that be....? (worded something like that)

I answered him that God was NOT tempted by satan, but rather the Son of God was. Similiarly, God did not die for 3 days, but rather His only begotten Son did. And yep, I feel that Paul would've backed me on it had he been standing there during the brief explanation.

yeah for 12 year old sons

I am always amazed how so many folks read right past the provocation that Satan used to instigate his temptations of Jesus:
"IF THOU be the SON OF GOD"......

{which just so happens to be the position the demons acknowledged he had when they had an encounter with him in the country of the Gadarenes:
"What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. "

I wonder who it was that was adjuring him by God?