This article about testing and tempting is offered to give understanding to this confusing subject. You have permission to publish it if the resource box is left intact. The author can be contacted at lynn_b2@yahoo.com. Total words 840.

Understanding the trials we are struggling with is very difficult. We will never comprehend fully in this life, but there are principles in Scripture that illuminate the subject.

The Bible speaks of testing by God and tempting by Satan. It is only in modern English that temptation has come to mean testing for evil purposes; testing and temptations were once synonymous (NIV Bible Dictionary, page 997). The only difference between testing and tempting is the purpose they are given for. It is God