Why did Jesus ask God to "lead us not into temptation?"?

Question

I have my own theory, would like to hear yours.

Answer 1

Dear Kj7gs: Great question!

Jesus is teaching us in the Lord's prayer. He is interceding for us at this line of the prayer, that the Father not allow us to be LED to the temptations that this world abounds in, but that He, rather, deliver us from evil(s).

I do not know the exact interpretation, from Aramaic into English for the word LEAD. But He is asking that we NOT be LED by anything into temptations - that the Father deliver us from them.A bit awkward - but we understand the general meaning. Something is involved in the translation, I think. Yet, our hearts know what He speaks of.

Answer 2

"Lead us not into temptation" is part of what we call today The Lord's Prayer. Denominations of the Christian faith pray this word by word according to the Bible. However, oftentimes this passage of scripture is taken for what it is and not for what it means.

Jesus was advising his listeners to pray a certain way, which is to acknowledge God the father as holy, to ask him for forgiveness, and so on. Jesus doesn't ask God to keep us away from temptation, but wanted us to pray in that we ask God be stayed on Him, to keep our minds and hearts according to his will and wishes.

God won't take us where we shouldn' t be; no matter how good or bad the situation is, there's always a reason. Questions arise as to whether God tests us. If we are strong spiritually, we cannot fail. It is only when we stumble comes the fall. If facing temptation, we ultimately make the decision (God gave us choice--it's called free will). As we are the decision-makers, we cannot blame God for leading us into tempation. But we can continue to pray that God will help us along the way.

Answer 3

The observe "lead" in Greek skill carry into or take us into temptation. God won't stay us on my own for the time of temptation. He nonetheless with us what ever happens. Hebrews 13:5. without temptation there is no develop in our faith. Even Jesus, after He have been given baptized by John, the Holy Spirit leads Him interior the wasteland to get tempted earlier He began His ministry. Apostle Paul pronounced " Corinthians 10:13 "No temptation has seized you different than what's common to guy. And God is committed; he won't help you be tempted previous what you may bear. yet once you're tempted, he will additionally supply a manner out so as which you will upward push up decrease than it." He pronounced "while and not "if". we could desire to bear in innovations that we are in God area and devil will do each and every little thing to tempt us to no longer do away with us in our place with God yet to paralyze us to share the solid information of Jesus Christ to each physique.

Answer 4

Jesus was telling the disciples how to pray.
Look up Matthew 6:5-15 and Luke 11:1-4
so the "lead us not into temptation" is what the disciples are supposed to pray.

Answer 5

Its a poor interpretation of the original intent.

God does not lead into temptation. The original meaning was more along the lines of "save us from falling into temptation"

Answer 6

because he didn't want us to do bad things. humans inevitably want things, and sometimes things/people get in the way. lead us not into temptation, means help us be good, and not hurt anyone or do anything bad like that

Answer 7

6. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. This petition is expressed,
(1.) Negatively: Lead us not into temptation. Having prayed that the guilt of sin may be removed, we pray, as it is fit, that we may never return again to folly, that we may not be tempted to it. It is not as if God tempted any to sin; but, “Lord, do not let Satan loose upon us; chain up that roaring lion, for he is subtle and spiteful; Lord, do not leave us to ourselves (Psa_19:13), for we are very weak; Lord, do not lay stumbling-blocks and snares before us, nor put us into circumstances that may be an occasion of falling.” Temptations are to be prayed against, both because of the discomfort and trouble of them, and because of the danger we are in of being overcome by them, and the guilt and grief that then follow.
(2.) Positively: But deliver us from evil; apo tou ponērou - from the evil one, the devil, the tempter; “keep us, that either we may not be assaulted by him, or we may not be overcome by those assaults:” Or from the evil thing, sin, the worst of evils; an evil, an only evil; that evil thing which God hates, and which Satan tempts men to and destroys them by. “Lord, deliver us from the evil of the world, the corruption that is in the world through lust; from the evil of every condition in the world; from the evil of death; from the sting of death, which is sin: deliver us from ourselves, from our own evil hearts: deliver us from evil men, that they may not be a snare to us, nor we a prey to them.”

Answer 8

I think it it is us asking not to be led into temptation.

Answer 9

Because He's our Ultimate Guide?

Answer 10

The Catholic Church teaches from it's Catechism of the Catholic Church that:

VI. "AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION"

2846 This petition goes to the root of the preceding one, for our sins result from our consenting to temptation; we therefore ask our Father not to "lead" us into temptation. It is difficult to translate the Greek verb used by a single English word: the Greek means both "do not allow us to enter into temptation" and "do not let us yield to temptation."150 "God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one";151 on the contrary, he wants to set us free from evil. We ask him not to allow us to take the way that leads to sin. We are engaged in the battle "between flesh and spirit"; this petition implores the Spirit of discernment and strength.

2847 The Holy Spirit makes us discern between trials, which are necessary for the growth of the inner man,152 and temptation, which leads to sin and death.153 We must also discern between being tempted and consenting to temptation. Finally, discernment unmasks the lie of temptation, whose object appears to be good, a "delight to the eyes" and desirable,154 when in reality its fruit is death.


God does not want to impose the good, but wants free beings. . . . There is a certain usefulness to temptation. No one but God knows what our soul has received from him, not even we ourselves. But temptation reveals it in order to teach us to know ourselves, and in this way we discover our evil inclinations and are obliged to give thanks for the goods that temptation has revealed to us.155
2848 "Lead us not into temptation" implies a decision of the heart: "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. . . . No one can serve two masters."156 "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit."157 In this assent to the Holy Spirit the Father gives us strength. "No testing has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, so that you may be able to endure it."158

2849 Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter, both at the outset of his public mission and in the ultimate struggle of his agony.159 In this petition to our heavenly Father, Christ unites us to his battle and his agony. He urges us to vigilance of the heart in communion with his own. Vigilance is "custody of the heart," and Jesus prayed for us to the Father: "Keep them in your name."160 The Holy Spirit constantly seeks to awaken us to keep watch.161 Finally, this petition takes on all its dramatic meaning in relation to the last temptation of our earthly battle; it asks for final perseverance. "Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake."162