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What Is Temptation
Fairbain, quoted in The Words and Works of Jesus Christ, J. D. Pentecost, p. 99
What Is Temptation
Fairbain, quoted in The Words and Works of Jesus Christ, J. D. Pentecost, p. 99
What is temptation? Seduction to evil, solicitation to wrong. It stands distinguished from trial thus: trial tests, seeks to discover the man's moral qualities or character; but temptation persuades to evil, deludes, that it may ruin. The one means to undeceive, the other to deceive. The one aims at the man's good, making him conscious of his true moral self; but the other at his evil, leading him more or less unconsciously into sin. God tries; Satan tempts.
