[B-Greek] PEIRASMOS in James 1:13: Follow-up

Ron ronpt at comcast.net
Mon Aug 18 11:00:20 EDT 2003


That seems exactly accurate.  The passage deals with temptation in a
context of personal sinning, which God cannot do.  We sin because we are
born sinners with a genetic predispostion (the old man, the sin nature)
which produces sins just as sure as an apple tree produces apples.  Our
sin nature here is personified as an illicit paramour that seduces us
(using a sexual analogy), and when we give the green light to our sin
nature and "fornicate" with it, we conceive sin, and the bastard progeny
is the actual personal sin which we commit.  This leads to a state of
temporal death (separation from God), which is restored upon confession
of said sin.  IJn. 1:9

The fact is that there are external things which may incite the sin
nature, but we have to give the volitional OK to go ahead and pursue
them..

Is this not what the passage is saying?

Ron Snider,
Pastor-teacher, Grace Bible Church of Sarasota




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