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Can the Word of God Be a Temptation?

The serpent tempted Eve and Jesus using the very word of God. A reflection on how tradition can deceive us with the Scriptures.

Airton Humber · 14/12/24 · 1 min de leitura

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Can the Word of God Be a Temptation?

Jesus said: You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God! Matt 23:29
We have been deceived by traditional theology, because we disregard the power of God, through the Holy Spirit.

How did the serpent tempt Eve? Was it not with the word of God?
And he asked the woman: “Did God really say this: ‘Do not eat from any fruit of the trees in the garden’? ” Gen 3:5
How were the religious people of Jesus' time deceived? Was it not with the Law, the word of God?
How did the devil tempt Jesus? Was it not by using the word of God? Luke 4:3-12
Notice that he always brought the fight to the field of the natural man, deceiving the children of God with the word of God.

Rev 22: 18-19 warns us that the slightest alteration is enough for us to be deceived.
And when we examine our attitudes in the light of the Word of God, what do we find?
Our common answer is: God knows my heart… and that is so true that he himself warned: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can know it? Jer 17:9

Jesus said: … Thus you nullify the word of God because of your tradition. Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well about you, saying: ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain they worship me; their teachings are merely rules taught by men’”. Matt 15: 6-9

We are so molded by the patterns of this age, and so conformed to the world, that we no longer find it strange to celebrate Easter with a little bunny that lays chocolate eggs, and Christmas with Santa Claus.
How do you see it? Could we also be deceived?

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Airton Humber

Writer and creator of Amem... Amém!. Just an ordinary person who loves the Word of God.