(March 30, 2013 at 2:55 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Forgive me for interrupting your godgasm Drich, but at what point would your god not have realized the fatuous nature of satan's promises and temptations in explicit detail? I mean, it would be pretty difficult to tempt me into "sin" by offering me a glass box with nothing in it - promising that it was filled with 100$ bills....Or, perhaps more mystifying, by offering me something (like the world) - which I, as god, already had dominion over.....
That is how Jesus was able to resist the temptation--with perspective. Satan offered him kingdoms for his earthly life, but Jesus understood the grand plan: after he died and resurrected, he would be back in heaven with dominion over all. Christians face a remarkably similar temptation. We can seek the material pleasures of this world or we can place our treasure in heaven, where "moths and vermin [do not] destroy, and where thieves [do not] break in and steal" (Matt 6:19).
