I agree with that. I would also add that intellectually - the third aspect of human nature - He was fallen like Cain.

Good question Daryl. This is a critical and inexhaustible subject. We could write book after book because as Ellen White says; "The incarnation of Christ is the mystery of all mysteries." {FLB 48.2}. She also says:


The most important reason to study the humanity of the Lord it that when we understand how Christ overcame as a man we'll have the tools to do the same. This is not optional. The remnant "keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus" Rev 14:12. So the remnant has to understand the faith of Jesus, how He overcame by faith in the Father and live it.

The last part of the chapter “Calvary” in the DA describes the final victory of Christ on the cross. She describes how, after being nailed to the cross it was lifted and thrust into place. Christ suffered in agony but his face was serene and full of love. As the torture intensified He was finally enshrouded in darkness for the final hours as He drank the last dregs. Throughout this ordeal He relied on the former tokens of His Father's love. This sustained Him. Although feeling completely forsaken, He clung to the memory of the Father's justice, mercy and love. His victory consisted in riding through this storm until every drop of His will was in submission to the Father so that no matter what happened, including eternal separation, His trust was unbroken. When He reached that point of faith and trust – at the cost of a broken heart - His sense of forsakenness left him and then John says “knowing all things were now accomplished” he asked for a drink. It's as though He knew His heart was already physically torn but that the liquid would complete the final rending, and after receiving the vinegar on a sprig of hyssop, He cried with a loud voice saying “It is finished. Father into thy hands I commend my spirit.” Luke 23:46 and John 19:30.

After probation for angels ended and they were cast out of heaven there was no turning back. And that was before Satan knowingly deceived Adam and Eve after they had been told that to eat from the tree of good and evil would result in death.

Wouldn't these circumstances have a bearing on the situation?

I think so. But here's the situation I see, in chronological order:
Satan rebelled against God
Some of the angels followed Satan
Some of those angels turned back to God
Satan was kicked out of heaven
Satan deceived man
God became a man
Satan killed God
The angels of heaven were finally fully convinced that Satan was incorrigible

Many thousands of years are spanned in that summary. Somewhere in there is a time when Jesus saved angels. But that salvation did not answer all the questions the angels had.

Christ's incarnation answers everything such that sin will not arise again.

What questions did the angels have?

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I agree with that.

It is amazing to think of the choices Cain made after God reasoned with him.

I have always had a harder time with the intellectual issue with Christ. But, I do believe the intellect has fallen in fallen human beings, and so the same with Christ.

Yet, Christ was perfectly committed to the Father and never sinned in any thought, desire or deed.

They are questions at the heart of the Great Controversy. Is Lucifer all that bad? Is God as good as He claims to be?

And the Biblical evidence for this is?

Christ came to this world to receive what was his, not to prove that the devil is the worse being that will ever exist. However, he came to his own, and his own received him not; and so he died. Nevertheless, God (who is merciful and just), gave him all things because he was faithful always.

"Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory." (Heb. 3:1-6)

Because we are Christ's house, he came to claim what was rightfully his. That's the Biblical reason for the Incarnation; but some have invented vain convoluted ideas over which many are made to stumble.

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Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10) That may have more facets than is revealed by the "taking back what's mine" model.

Do you believe in the Great Controversy motif?