On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:14:27PM +0100, Harriet Monkhouse wrote:
Kathryn wrote:
But it's Avon's fault for listening to it. (Insert Biblical quote which I can't remember which basically refutes the argument "He tempted me" with the answer "You wouldn't have been tempted if you hadn't wanted to do it in the first place")
The closest I can find is James 1.13-14, though that doesn't quite match: "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."
Yes, that was the one I was thinking of. My translation has "he is lured and enticed by his own desire" -- which I think can be reasonably paraphrased as "you're tempted because you really did want to do it in the first place"...
Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "He's got a diamond - he must be an alien!" -- remark during "The Day The Earth Stood Still" at the Valhalla 24-hour SF marathon (9-2-91)