By Ernest S. Williams
Systematic Theology
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He did not simply enter a creature prepared for him. When he was born, human nature was not transformed by a special creation into some superhuman being for the Spirit of God to enter. . Nor were the two streams parallel while unmingled. There could not be two wills or two consciousnesses in the same personality, by any psychological possibility now credible. We could not have in the same person both knowledge and ignorance of the same thing. If he did not know it he was altogether ignorant of it.
In temptation a "man is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed” (James 1:14). It was temptation of this kind through which our first parents fell. The temptation of Jesus was similar. Temptation of the first pair was an effort to lure them from every blessing with which they were surrounded. Temptation of Jesus took place in the barren wilderness 56 S y st e m a t ic T h eo lo g y of Judea. The first pair had everything in their favor, our Lord Jesus had every natural disadvantage. The Scripture says concerning Christ that “he was in all points tempted like as we ate, yet without sin” (Heb.
That Godhead lost nothing in the saving act. It took the whole power of the Godhead to save; it was not the Son’s work alone; far less was it the work of an impaired Son. It was not the work of a God, tninorum gentium, as the Arian Christ is. It could not be the work of any created being, however great. The value of the soul would forever sink if we believed it salvable by any creature. . The divine nature must belong to the universal and final Redeemer, however its mode and action might be conditioned by the work it had to do.
