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There is a difference between temptations
which the Father considers proper and the temptations which come
from the Adversary. The former are tests of loyalty to God and to
the principles of righteousness, and are intended to be a blessing
and a help to all those who withstand them, and who thus demonstrate
their loyalty to righteousness. The temptations of Satan, on the
contrary, are in the nature of pitfalls and snares in evil and
wrongdoing, temptations to make right appear wrong and wrong appear
right, putting light for darkness and darkness for light. In this
sense of misrepresentation and ensnarements in evil, God tempts no
man. |
