APL, it seems like Arnold and Rosangela believe Jesus was tempted in all points during the three times He was tempted in the desert. In other words, the root of all temptations boil down to those three different points. They encompass the essence of all the different ways people can be tempted. It suffices for being tempted in a bazillion different ways.
You keep speaking as if you speak for me like you are my adversary willing to misrepresent what I believe because you cannot discern the truth God has shown me. But just to show that I understand that Jesus was tempted His whole life and not just in the wilderness here is the perfect quote from the Lords Servant who I am totally willing to support in everything God showed her.
"The temptations to which Christ was subjected were a terrible reality. As a free agent, he was placed on probation, with liberty to yield to Satan’s temptations and work at cross-purposes with God. If this were not so, if it had not been possible for him to fall, he could not have been tempted in all points as the human family is tempted. The temptations of Christ, and his sufferings under them, were proportionate to his exalted,
sinless character. But in every time of distress, Christ turned to his Father. He “resisted unto blood” in that hour when the fear of moral failure was as the fear of death.
As he bowed in Gethsemane, in his soul agony, drops of blood fell from his pores, and moistened the sods of the earth. He prayed with strong crying and tears, and he was heard in that he feared. God strengthened him, as he will strengthen all who will humble themselves, and throw themselves, soul, body, and spirit, into the hands of a covenant-keeping God.{YI October 26, 1899, par. 8}
But my point not that Jesus wasn't tempted by Satan His whole life as you are misrepresenting in trying to have the last say.
My point is that the temptations were external not internal longings or lusts as you present Him as. So stop twisting my words and misrepresenting my faith like Satan would.
"Jesus had been earnestly conversing with His disciples and instructing them; but
as He neared Gethsemane, He became strangely silent. He had often visited this spot for meditation and prayer;
but never with a heart so full of sorrow as upon this night of His last agony. Throughout His life on earth He had walked in the light of God’s presence. When in conflict with men who were inspired by the very spirit of Satan, He could say, “He that sent Me is with Me: the Father hath not left Me alone; for I do always those things that please Him.” John 8:29. But now He seemed to be shut out from the light of God’s sustaining presence. Now He was numbered with the transgressors.
The guilt of fallen humanity He must (future tense: entering Gethsemane) bear. Upon Him who knew no sin must be laid the iniquity of us all.
So dreadful does sin appear to Him, so great is the weight of guilt which He must bear, that He is tempted to fear it will shut Him out forever from His Father’s love. Feeling how terrible is the wrath of God against transgression, He exclaims, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.”{DA 685.2}
Does this not say He began to bear the sins of the world in Gethsemane and it was temptation for Him to not go through it because it would separate Him from the Father?
It was in Gethsemane that He bore our guilt not His whole life. And that is when He vicariously experience our guilt and temptations not just the ones Satan suggested to Him, but the ones we had actually responded to in sin.
"It was soul-anguish that wrenched from the lips of God’s dear Son these mournful words: “Now is my soul troubled,—my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death.”
Christ’s soul was bearing a weight of anguish because of the transgression of God’s law. He was overwhelmed with horror and consternation at the fearful work sin had wrought.
His burden of guilt was so great because of man’s transgression of his Father’s law, that human nature was inadequate to bear it. His inexpressible anguish forced from his pores large drops of blood, which fell upon the ground and moistened the sods of Gethsemane.{ST August 14, 1879, par. 11}
Stop misrepresenting my faith. Speak of yourself.
