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The word tempt in various Biblical passages when talking about tempting God use definitions #4 and 5 as listed at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tempt?s=t ht
by PakG1 7y ago
The word tempt in various Biblical passages when talking about tempting God use definitions #4 and 5 as listed at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tempt?s=t https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tempt?s=t
A summary of how theologians interpret the word is found here (just did a quick Google search), and the explanation matches with what I wrote above.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/tempting-god https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs...
So I don't think the words "tempting God" mean what you think they mean (presuming you thought it used definitions #1, 2, or 3).
- perl4ever 7y agoI heard a rumor that when the Bible uses the word, it wasn't actually English, modern or archaic, in the original. Looks like it might be πειράζω. Edit: and Luther apparently used the word Versuchung, which I'm not sure how to interpret because everybody seems to translate it as temptation in the sense of seduction, even though the biblical word should be testing or proving...
- PakG1 7y agoYeah Biblical etymology and comparison with original languages is its own rabbit hole. See definition of word day in Genesis chapter 1 and how many conservative American churches don't do a very deep dive.