Tempter, Temptation, Testing

"Tempter" is a cunning, deceitful person, an opponent of the Truth of God's Will, God's Commandments, figuratively called "the Devil", "Satan", "the Serpent", who tried to skillfully tempt the first Man ("Adam") to commit iniquities, who during the "Six Days", six historical periods of his spiritual formation, through the knowledge and fulfillment of God's Will, displayed, created in himself the spiritual "Image" and "Likeness" of God.

"Tempter" is also the image of carnal feelings, sinful desires of man, which contradict the Will of God, His Commandments and therefore "tempt", test man.

"Temptation" is a trial, an enticement, an event, an affair, seductive, attractive by its power to change a person's thinking and way of life, to push, provoke, draw him into the path of violating the Will of God.

"Tempt" is to seek to seduce a person to commit sin by the deceit of sinful thought, speech, sinful before the Will of God action, and so alienate, remove a person from the path of good, from the Truth, from spirituality, morality.

"To tempt" is to confuse with any temptations, lures, to entice with purely carnal interests, some benefit, sensuality.

"To tempt" also means to voluntarily or involuntarily create doubt, uncertainty about what is true; to create vacillation of spirit, beliefs, principles, views; to put in a position of spiritual choice in something relative to a position previously held.

"To tempt," also in the sense of to test oneself (or another), to examine, to convince by experience of a pattern of feelings, thoughts, or actions.

"Temptation" is a psychological, spiritual state of struggle between two beginnings in the consciousness of man: Good and evil, the promptings of conscience and the flesh.