What is Temptation?
Temptation is the need for a decision on what to do, where we receive multiple loves pulling in different directions.
- ‘Fighting Temptation’ is deciding to do one thing rather than another: to follow one love rather than another.
Not something once in a while, but actually there are temptations all day long every day.
Some we are aware of as cognitive dissonance (guilt, shame, conflict, distortion),
some as affective dissonance (smugness, ill will, discrimination, disobedience, doubt, hopelessness).
“Permanent spiritual growth occurs after you freely resist temptation by means of truths.”