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You may be right. I certainly can't get inside His head. I will insert a couple other potentials, for the sake of "speculation" and conversation, not to dispute what you say.OG = Original basically.
But I would only point out that he was later tempted as well, internally, to disobey and avoid the cross. He never contemplated seriously doing it, but the temptation to avoid all that suffering was there, hence the "cup would pass from me" thing. I don't see how this is any different from an internal motivation.
Personally, I don't see any evidence that his condition or trials while on Earth were any different than our own, and that's kind of the point of the whole thing.
To want to avoid the pain and suffering Jesus was about to endure on the cross is natural, but not sinful. I don't see Him being tempted to disobey but simply pleading with the Father to not ask Him to do it. But again---not in His head.
I think the things that tempt us are so internal and as constantly present in our thoughts and actions as breathing, (as scripture says, they actually begin as a temptation in our minds, and it is there that we contemplate and debate whatever it is until we finally do it,) that we cannot imagine not being that way, or anyone else not being that way. Even though the things that tempt us have their first appearance externally, (the eye beholds), it is the interactions and desires and even imaginations---our thoughts---that cause it to become full blown. Even if we aren't actually committing a sin, our thoughts and desires are of a sinful nature. Jesus didn't have that problem as it wasn't a part of His nature. IMO when we are told that Jesus was like us in every way and was tempted as we are, that does not include a sinful nature, only one that was capable of sin, just as Adam was. It simply means He was truly human. God did not create us with a sinful nature, only with one capable of sin.