Temptation

A temptation is an incentive or inducement to commit an act that appears attractive, but is impractical, a social norm contradicts and / or prohibited. It may cover all possible types of action or inaction ( action or inaction) relate (eg, the disregard of dietary restrictions, the cheating, the purchase of luxury goods, postponing tasks, petty theft, failure to render assistance, abuse of power, etc.). Even animals can be led into temptation (such as a food to snag despite unreasonably large risk ).

The act committed may then trigger remorse and / or guilt.

The temptation may be caused by other people that pass through seduction into temptation (eg, flattery, pleading, directing, instigating, praising, Arousal from lie in the object of desire as such or in the manner of its presentation ( advertising) or curiosity, use of authority, generating fear, threat of loss or manipulation).

In advertising, marketing and publicity temptation is a central theme: they want / to persuade consumers to buy a service or to enter into a contract.

The term " temptation " may be connoted neutral, negative or positive. An example of the latter is the well-known advertising campaign for Milka chocolate ( " the tenderest temptation since chocolate "). In the Our ​​Father, the term is, however, a negative connotation ("... and lead us not into temptation ").

Temptation in Christianity

In the Christian context, temptation is the incentive to sin or to commit an immoral act (see also morality). As the core of all temptations applies the Beiseitschieben God, who appears as a nuisance in addition to the desired one.

In the Bible, the temptation is associated with evil; she goes in particular by the devil from himself. The best-known stories in the Bible are tempted to sin case described in the first book of Genesis through Adam and Eve and the temptation of the pious Job by the devil.

It is also known (Matthew 26:41 EU): "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. ".

( Mk 1:12-13 EU; Matthew 4:1-11 Luke 4:1-13 EU EU) Central also mentioned in the three Synoptic Gospels, Jesus' temptation is: After his baptism, Jesus is led by the Spirit of God in the desert where he is fasting and the devil tempts him. It shows how Jesus is fighting for its identity and mission by exposing Satan's temptations.

Quotes

• I can resist everything except temptation (about: everything can I resist the temptation not only. ) (Oscar Wilde ( 1854-1900 ), Irish dramatist and writer )
• Some people who flees from the temptation but secretly hopes that it catches up with him. (Giovanni Guareschi ( 1908-1968 ), Italian journalist and writer )