I'm not quite sure where you would get the presumption that Jesus coveted from these verses.
Peace be upon you pianoxtreme99,
I got it from the fact that Jesus Christ, according to the NT, was between GOD and satan for 40 days and 40 nights. That's a lot of time for temptation. And yes, while Christ, the Prophet of Allah Almighty, didn't commit the sins that satan wanted him to commit, but he still coveted,
because it took him a very long time to overcome satan's temptation. I don't know how you would feel if your wife was between you and another man for 40 days and 40 nights.
What kind of a GOD is Jesus Christ, anyway, when the Bible clearly says that
GOD Almighty can not be tempted. Yet, Jesus was very badly tempted for 40 days and 40 nights by satan.
Jesus was not GOD Almighty, nor was he perfect. He was a creation of GOD Almighty and he wasn't perfect. He was GOD Almighty's Messenger and Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and upon all of the Prophets and Messengers of GOD Almighty. Ameen.
Answer to you: Jesus is the son of God, he does not sin nor desire sin; it is revolting to Him. For example, if you tempt me with a plate of manure, tempting me for a day, a week, 23 days or even 40 days isn't going to increase my desire to eat the plate of manure. Jesus was tempted to sin, but he did not covet after the sin. Again, Hebrews 4:15. According to the Bible, Christ was sinless and perfect.
You are clearly confused between being actually tempted, and someone trying to tempt you while you're not interested.
In order for you to be tempted, you have to have an interest or desire in the thing that you're being tempted on. This is why Jesus Christ, because of his temptation, had
"evil desires" in him, and felt spiritually
"weak", and got very weak that Angels had to come down to spiritually
"attend him". And he's the same person who said that if your eye sins then pluck it out, and if your hand sins then cut it off and throw it away. Yet, satan was able to scramble his desires for 40 days and 40 nights. If that is not coveting, pianoxtreme99, then what is it then? Please visit:
http://www.answering-christianity.com/satanic_verses.htm.
Furthermore, in order for you to be tempted in something, you have to have a desire and wish of having it. The Catholic Priests who supposedly stay virgins are constantly tempted to have sex (either with children, women or other men). Many of them resist it and many of them fail and commit the sexual sin. Those who failed failed because they already had the urge in them. Temptation just simply paved the way for them to commit the sin. But have they not had any desire in having sex (as humans we all have that desire) then they would not be tempted.
To put it more simply and clearly for you, pianoxtreme99, I may be able to tempt you to have sex with a woman, because deep inside you you may be dying to have her, and we both may happen to know her in person, and she's single and she has an great interest in you, and in your head you'd be thinking about it, but I most definitely won't be able to tempt you
to eat a rotten, dead and stinking cat that is laying on the side of a road, because you most certainly don't have that desire and urge to eat that disgusting thing.
Let alone you taking 40 days and 40 nights to think about it. And Christ supposedly came from Heaven. Therefore, nothing on this earth should tempt him for 1 second, let alone for 40 days and 40 nights. My apologies to the reader if my example sounded disgusting. I was just making a point that demonstrates the difference between actually being tempted, and someone trying to tempt you on something that you would never be tempted on.
Again, Hebrews 4:15. According to the Bible, Christ was sinless and perfect.
Frankly, I don't care what the man-made Hebrews 4:15 says, because the evidence is overwhelmingly clear about Jesus Christ being tempted very badly by satan, and him being between GOD and satan for 40 days and 40 nights. Yes, to me that is coveting. And coveting is one of the Bible Old Testament's moral sins. Again, I am not saying that Christ was evil here. But he certainly wasn't perfect nor sinless. And most importantly, he is not, was not and can not be GOD Almighty,
the Creator of the Universe. Saying he was is a clear blasphemy.
Please visit: visit:
http://www.answering-christianity.com/authors_gospels.htm to see how most of the Bible was not only written by ordinary men who were not chosen by GOD Almighty, but they were also mysterious and unknown authors. The books were also written in unknown dates and unknown lands. And they're full of contradictions as this link clearly demonstrates.
I hope this makes it abundantly clear for you.
Take care,
Osama Abdallah
