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Posted on March 2, 2011March 2, 2011

The ‘If’ of Temptation

The devil said to him, 'If . . .' (Luke 4:3) The serpent said to the woman, 'Did God really say?' (Genesis 3:1) The accuser brings questions of truth. In the time of temptation, the beginning point is a questioning of what we would otherwise know to be true: Is it really that big of …

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