Genesis 1:27
Man is Created in God's Image
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Mark 10:18
Only God is Good
18 "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone".
Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness by the Evil One
1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”
5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6 “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:
“‘He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’ ”
7 Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”
10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’ ”
11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
Galatians 5:22-23
Fruits of the Holy Spirit
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Matthew 7:13-14
The Road to Temptations is Broad and Wide
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Jesus Did Not Sin
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 7:7-25
Paul's Struggle with Sin
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
John 8:45-47
Jesus Asks Those Opposing Him, to Prove that He Has Sinned
45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
John 10:30
Jesus and God are One
30 I and the Father are one.
Mark 2:16-17
Jesus Came to Earth for Us Who Sin
16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
The road to destruction is an easy one...Jesus says, "For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it."...The way of goodness is a very narrow path, with only a small gate...Being good all the time is much tougher, than being bad...Being bad is easy, the path is broad and wide...The evil one is right there at this road...But being good all the time, was done only by One Man...Being bad has been done for centuries and still is being done, and done by many of us...It is very easy to be fall to temptations, while it is very, very, very difficult always to be good...
Jesus teaches us that only God is good...All goodness comes from God...And we are made in the Image of God...So we know that being created in His Image we should have some, if not many of His tendencies...If one believes that the Holy Spirit is sent by our Father and is in us, then we should be prone to this desire to be good...Yet, we sin, and we do struggle with temptations and sin...We struggle to be good...Yet, we have this longing, this pulling toward goodness, and goodness in our hearts...And in our hearts we know that we ought to be good...
And although we have this longing to be good and do good, we struggle with sin...We have this sinful nature that St. Paul even admits to...St. Paul's great verses in his letter to the Romans tell us of his struggles with temptations...St. Paul explained his sinful ways to the Romans, in this way... I do not understand what I do...For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do...And if I do what I do not want to do, and I agree and know that the Law of Moses is good...As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me...For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature...For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out...For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing...Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it...
So while as men we sin and struggle with sin, Jesus did not sin...C. S. Lewis said, “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means...This is an obvious lie...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is...After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in...You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down...A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later...That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness — they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in...We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only Man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only Man who knows to the full what temptation means — the only complete realist.”...
Jesus does know to the fullest, what temptation and sin means...He never gave in to temptation by the evil one, when tested for forty days and forty nights...And when Jesus said "Why do you call Me good?", and then He says, "No one is good—except God alone." ...When we look at what He said, He is not denying that He is good...No, He is just saying that God alone is good...And if one believes that Jesus and the Father are One, then what Jesus is saying is that both God is good, and also He is good...And if you believe that both He and His Father are One and both are good, then you must conclude that He is God in the flesh...And this means God came to earth to save us, save us from our own sins...The Only One who is good, gives us great hope...The Only One who is good, gives us great hope...