Pure and Undefiled Religion (7)

chapter 1:13-17, cont. chapter 1:13-17, cont. No one may say when he succumbs to temptation, "I am tempted of God." The reason no one may say that is: "for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man." Literally the text reads: "for God is untemptable of evil." That is contrary to His very Being and Nature as God. God is pure and holy, righteous and good; He is the light in whom is no darkness at all (cf. vs. 17, I John 1:5). Because God is untemptable of evil, it follows...