I'm not a fan of the whole Pope thing in general, much less this specific pope. That's a pretty bold move to change that verse. I understand that scholars can get better and better at correct translation to English at times...Greek or Aramaic to English is difficult to do word for literal word and it make sense or readable. Any translation writing has to be rock solid and have checks and balances built in to keep things straight. I wish I had that in my own head...which leads me to another thought.

A great temptation we all have is "rewriting" Scripture to fit our wants, desires, circumstances...

I speak for myself as well...but how often do we know what the Bible says but yet we try to soften in to fit our lives or somehow justify our relaxing of standards/noncompliance/disobedience/etc...? I know that can be easy for me to do. I love the Lord and I'm confident in my salvation 100% based on Christ's work...but I'm not always all-in on following the full letter (commands, advice, etc...) because that means I have to change or give up something.

I've always understood the Lord's Prayer to be be talking about temptation in this context:
Our Lord God does not tempt us to sin. But as we are living life we know we have a sin nature and we can find ourselves in tempting circumstances...circumstances were we fail, stumble, etc. by our own doing. This part of the prayer comes right after asking for forgiveness of our own actions/inaction and asking for a heart that forgives others. "And lead us not into temptation" is related to the preceding verse....Lord lead me, guide me, equip me to stay away from the path where I failed, stumbled, sinned and was wrong...that area that I need forgiveness---keep me out of that. Key in the phrase is "lead us not"...which is a negative reference which means we are praying that God will in the positive sense lead us away from temptation....hence the rest of the sentence "BUT, deliver us..." The "but" as a conjunction joins the phrases and tells the fuller story.




Last edited by straycat; 12/12/18 02:17 PM.
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