The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland

In what consisted the strength of the assault
made upon Adam, which caused his fall? It was not
indwelling sin; for God made Adam after His own
character, pure and upright. There were no corrupt
principles in the first Adam, no corrupt
propensities or tendencies to evil. Adam was as
faultless as the angels before God's throne (Letter
191, 1899; 1BC 1083).
But Jesus makes clear that His temptability was
in our realm of the inclination to follow His own
will even as we are tempted in that same way, and
His victory lay in the denial of His own will: "I
came ... not to do My own will, but the will of Him
who sent Me." "I do not seek My own will but the
will of the Father who sent Me" (John 6:38; 5:30).
Here was an inward struggle that Jesus bore
constantly, which Adam never experienced in his
sinless state. Before the Fall, Adam had no
constant cross to bear, no need to deny self as did
our Lord who "did not please Himself" (Romans
15:3).
3. Does Paul's use of "like" in Romans 1:23
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