Did God Betray You

Some people mourn about closed church buildings, because they don't want to go anymore to the service. This is sad, because in many places young people can no longer find friends in the Church. Why are you maybe possible think, God have betrayed you? O my dearest unheavenly, fluid of his greatness, now only God knows what will happen next. 

The two-source Hypothesis 'Right our Wrong', proposes that the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were written independently, each using Mark and a second hypothetical document called 'Q as a source.

  • In the Bible, the word 'temptation', is used in various senses, the principal of which are the following:
  • the act of testing or trying (Deuteronomy 4:34; Tobit 2:12; Luke 22:28; etc.);
  • enticement to evil (Matthew 26:41; 1 Corinthians 10:13; etc.);
  • the state of being tempted (Matthew 6:13; Luke 4:13; etc.);
  • that which tempts or entices to evil (James 1:12; 2 Peter 2:9; etc.);
  • the name of a place (Exodus 17:7; Deuteronomy 6:16; etc.) 

Q was conceived as the most likely explanation behind the common material (mostly sayings) found in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke but not in the Gospel of Mark. Material from two other sources—the M source and the L source—are represented in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke here by green and teal respectively.

Taken in an unfavourable sense as denoting enticement to evil, temptation cannot be referred directly to God or to Christ, so that when we read in Genesis 22:1, for instance, 'God tempted Abraham', and in John 6:6, 'Hoc autem dicebat tentans eum', literally: 'This He [Jesus] said tempting him [Philip]', the expressions must be taken in the sense of testing, trying. According to St. James (1:12 sqq.).

The natural source of man's temptations is concupiscence, or that proneness to evil which is the result of the fall of Adam, and which remains in human nature after baptismal regeneration, and even though the soul is in the state of sanctifying grace (cf. Romans 8:1). 

Concupiscence becomes sinful only when freely yielded to; when resisted with God's help it is an occasion of merit. Together with inward concupiscence, and outward creatures, which may be the occasion of sin (1 John 2:15 sqq.), the chief cause of temptation is Satan, 'the tempter' (Matthew 4:3), bent on man's eternal ruin (Ephesians 6:10 sqq.). 

Like Adam, Christ (the second Adam) endured temptation only from without, inasmuch as His human nature was free from all concupiscence; but unlike Adam, He withstood the assaults of the Tempter on all points, thereby affording His mystical members a perfect model of resistance to their spiritual enemy, and a permanent source of victorious help (Hebrews 4:15-16). 

In our first three Gospels (Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13), the narrative of Christ's temptation is placed in immediate connexion with His baptism on the one hand, and with the beginning of His public ministry on the other. 

The reason of this is clear. The Synoptists naturally regard the baptism of Christ as the external designation of Jesus from above for His Messianic work to be pursued under the guidance of the Holy Spirit bestowed upon Him on this occasion; and they no less naturally regard Christ's sojourn in the desert where He was tempted, as His own immediate preparation for that great work under the guidance of the same Holy Spirit.

In the Lord's Prayer, the clause "Lead us not into temptation" is an humble and trusting petition for God's help to enable us to overcome temptation when His Fatherly Providence allows us to experience the allurements of evil. 

Prayer and watchfulness are the chief weapons against temptation (Mark 14:38; etc.). God does not allow man to be tempted beyond his strength (1 Corinthians 10:13).

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Along with Marcan priority, Q was hypothesized by 1900, and is one of the foundations of most modern gospel scholarship. B. H. Streeter formulated a widely accepted view of Q: that it was written in Koine Greek; that most of its contents appear in Matthew, in Luke, or in both; and that Luke more often preserves the text's original order than Matthew.


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