In case someone is living under a rock:
Matthew 6:13 KJV
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
James said:
James 1:13 KJV
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
A quick note on that verse: in context God does not tempt with evil. It also never says He doesn't lead people into temptation. Perhaps you may think I am splitting hairs, but consider these two verses:
Matthew 4:1 KJV
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Genesis 22:1 KJV
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am .
So the spirit led Jesus to be tempted and God did tempt Abraham.
Good Post. I read the post and saw the problem with the pope. he said, "In English and similarly in Italian, the prayer asks God to "lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." But, says Francis, it's not the Lord that tempts.". that's the problem, he don't understand that to be tempt can be for righteousness.
example, in Matthew 4:1 above the Spirit/God lead the Lord Jesus into the wilderness. not into temptation, but into the "wilderness". WHY? because nothing is in the wilderness. God put the Lord FLESH on a FAST so that he could overcome his own flesh which is an example to us. not to cater to the flesh. what God did lead the lord Jesus to victory, he God DELIVERED him from EVIL.
Just as in Abraham case. God led Abraham to a specify mountain, not just any mountain, but to a specify mountain where God had a RAM IN THE BUSH waiting to replace his Son Issac with. see God lead us to victory. and in that leading he deliver us from all "evil". this is why men like the Pope, if you believe them will change the truth into a LIE, Romans 1:25. but lets get the context here. Romans 1:21-31 "Because that,
when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and
their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools,
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served
the creature more than the Creator,
who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same,
but have pleasure in them that do them".
Peace in Christ Yeshua.
