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TEMPTATION TO TEMPLE
Part one
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 In the first three parts of the "TtoT" series, I have discussed and clearly defined the works of sin and legalism in postmodern society today. The sins and legalisms in todays culture are nothing new. In fact, their root is in the same old natures discussed and dealt with in the Scriptures. As I stated previously, the concept of totem is, in a brief summary, "A once organic and mobile being possessing life that has now became death and stationary in tribute to a past lifestyle creating a state of idolotry based on the peculiar relationship to the previous lifestyles." The concept of taboo is "A system of rules embedded in one's culture that is actually a prohibition from an action that when breached, brings forth supernatural punishment and/or the unleasing of supernatural dangers." The concept of tresspass / transgression is "The act or an instance of overstepping a defined boundary of committing a sin. To go beyond a specified limit of what is considered right or morally committing a wrongful action against another person or God Almighty". Totem is referring to the actual act of death. Taboo is referring to the sinful actions prohibited by scriptures. Temptation / Transgression deals with the specific freewill act of committing the sin.
Webster's Dictionary defines the word temptation as "The persuasion, provocation, enticement, and allurement to perform something that is immoral or sensually pleasurable". Where totem dealt with the actual passing from life to death, where taboo dealt with the rules of prohibition of an action, and where tresspass / transgression deals specifically with the actual act of committing a sin, Temptation is in reality, the external forces and desires that influence our internal freewill choices. Therefore, one allows the external senses and pressures of sin to internally drive and influence a freewill choice to commit a tresspass / transgression by performing an act of taboo that when undealt with by you in the form of repentance by God, will lead one from spiritual life to spiritual death into the state of totem. In this part of the TtoT series, I will specifically deal with what the Scriptures state about temptation, our battle and victory over temptation, and how to sense and discern the external warning signals of sinful enticement that influences internal choices of whether I sin or not to sin.
Click here for part two of Temptation to Temple.
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