Originally posted by tabibito
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Now I could be wrong about this, but I'm thinking Jesus in the Lord's Prayer is teaching us to pray for God to save us from situations where our own desires become to strong for us, and we succumb to sin, while James on the other hand is saying that God isn't the reason we fall into temptation, or feel tempted, but that it's our own desires that are responsible.
So I don't think there's a conflict here, even if we understand both passages to talk about temptation to do evil/sin. One (the LP) is talking about being led into situations where we are tempted (perhaps beyond our capabilities?), while the other (James) is talking about the reason why we feel tempted in the first place.
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