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Humans can NEVER be tempted by RexBrita: 9:49pm On Feb 20, 2015
Are you sometimes tempted to this or that? Yeah I know. But I don’t think so. Temptation is the desire to do or have something that is bad or wrong, or a thing that makes somebody want to do or have something that they know is bad or wrong.

A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
But temptation is just choice, nothing more. Let me explain using a food analogy.
Do you eat glass? I am sure more than 99.99% of humans don’t. What if someone who is very hungry were presented with a beautiful plate of colourful sharp-edged broken pieces of glass? To make it more ‘tempting’, the dish is garnished (and disguised) by the best chef and served with mouth-watering appetizers and desserts in the ambience of a 5-star restaurant. I can bet no one will eat the glass regardless of the intensity of their hunger. So we cannot be tempted to do what we do not want to do.

IT’S ALL ABOUT CHOICE
The word temptation creates the impression of an external force pulling or pushing us into what we do not want. But it’s a big lie. We decide to do what we do except that we have not found sufficient reason(s) not to. Using that word, temptation, only empowers our powerlessness.

CAN WE OVERCOME TEMPTATION?
If it exists, yes we can. There are 3 steps:
1) Choices
You don’t eat glass but you can eat burger, rice, spags, chilala, and a host of other choices. So create or discover other healthy alternatives you can choose from.
2) Get to know
If we know why we shouldn't do a thing, it is a easier to avoid it. So educate yourself. Find out why it is bad. And what makes the other alternatives better. Should we want anyone not to do something, furnish the person (even kids) with logical reasons why. Unfortunately in this part of the world, we tend to just say it to them (or command it).

3) Choose.
You are the king/queen of your world. NOTHING makes you do anything but yourself. It's your life/world, own it.
Choose what you want.

Deuteronomy 30:19
The choice is even made easier. You already know the 'temptation' is a bad idea.

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Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by RexBrita: 7:37am On Feb 21, 2015
So don't allow yourself to be tempted.
Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by RexBrita: 2:21am On Feb 22, 2015
QUESTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF IDEAS ARE WELCOME
Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by Nobody: 5:13am On Feb 22, 2015
when you embrace your fears ...you can't be tempted .
Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by RexBrita: 8:09am On Feb 22, 2015
@ Alexpissu

That applies too
Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by stuff46(m): 12:07pm On Feb 22, 2015
Nice op
Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by RexBrita: 4:14pm On Feb 22, 2015
@ stuff46

Thanks
Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by RexBrita: 9:51pm On Feb 28, 2015
reactions are welcome
Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by RexBrita: 5:04am On Mar 01, 2015
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Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by RexBrita: 9:50pm On Mar 07, 2015
Lead us not into temptation...
Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by benosky(m): 9:57pm On Mar 07, 2015
D op seems to be making lotta sense. Nice one
Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by RexBrita: 10:27pm On Apr 04, 2015
The decision is yours. Forget temptation!
Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by RexBrita: 12:31am On Dec 17, 2015
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Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by Toyolad(m): 7:49am On Dec 17, 2015
If you are faced with sexual temptation by an extremely sexy lady who is so good at it, it only takes God's grace to resist such when u know that she will go faraway after that day so noone gets to know about it and u knw she's got no STD...baba, nah Grace fit save ooh, pastors av fallen oo
Re: Humans can NEVER be tempted by RexBrita: 12:24pm On May 22, 2016
you are strong

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