The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland
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e relevant to him?<br />
Was our temptation "quinine" to Christ's<br />
human nature? If so, it was no struggle for Him, no<br />
temptation. I have never had to plead with the Lord<br />
to give me strength to resist an impulse to take a<br />
glass of quinine! But Christ pleaded for "this cup"<br />
to be taken from Him. To interpret the above<br />
statement thus would be to deny the reality of<br />
Christ's temptability and destroy the completeness<br />
of His identity with us in temptation. No one is<br />
"powerfully influenced" to drink bitter quinine, yet<br />
we read that Christ was "powerfully influenced to<br />
do a wrong action.... This was the ordeal through<br />
which Christ passed." Otherwise temptation is no<br />
temptation for Him or for us (cf. 5BC 1082).<br />
But the above statement harmonizes perfectly<br />
with all that Ellen White has written if it is<br />
understood as saying that Christ perfectly resisted<br />
every temptation. He did not "possess like<br />
passions" because he did not "for one moment"<br />
yield to the temptations that produce "passions."<br />
<strong>The</strong> temptation being perfectly resisted, no<br />
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