SeraphAlford wrote:

I don’t really recall where the video was. I’m not even sure if it was on Youtube or some other streaming website.

Concerning the argument in the first video, it’s incorrect on two notes. First off:
His basic argument is that the bible says God is not tempted but the bible also says that Jesus was tempted; therefore, Jesus cannot be god.

James 1:13- “When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.”

Mathew 4:1- “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the dessert to be tempted by the devil.”

It is a classic three part deductive argument; you will come across a lot of these in debate and logic.

However, look at the verses he cites to argue that Jesus was tempted. When you read them in context you see that, yes. Satan tried to make Jesus do bad things. However, Jesus had no desire to do such a thing.

Imagine that we’re driving along and we see a man sitting on the side of the road with his pregnant wife. I then say, “Hey, let’s kill those two!” and you say, “No!” because you’re a good person and you don’t WANT to hurt other people. So, I am tempting you in that I am trying to convince you to do something. However, you are not tempted to do it because you do not have a desire to do something so heinous. I am tempting you; you are being tempted in the car as Jesus was being tempted in the desert but you are not tempted. You are subjected to my action of tempting but there is no temptation on your part; therefore, I could write that you were being tempted but are never tempted.

Next, in Christianity Jesus Christ was given two separate natures. He has the nature of God and the nature of Man. (John 1:1,14; 8:24; Col. 2:9; 1 John 4:1-4). The whole idea of his sacrifice is that he came down and lived through the trails not of god, but of man, so that man could relate with their God. Jesus as a prophet came down so that we could understand God’s message, and as a man so that we could understand gods nature. If God is a foreign entity, like nothing in creation, then how can we have a relationship with him? If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot know it. How can you have a relationship with something you don’t even know?

So while his godly nature could not be tempted he still suffered the impulses of the flesh. It’s really a complicated theological concept and there’s actually no real consensus amongst the tens of thousands of Christian sects. Remember, we’re the only religion large than Islam, and we’re larger by far. Obviously we’re not all going to agree on every single thing.