HOW TO RESIST TEMPTATION
Most people fall into temptations because they cannot control themselves in what they want to do. They do not stop and think if that is really what they want to do. They rush themselves into doing something without thinking about the consequences. They believe that they have to do it now. And curiosity often overpowers their defenses. That's how we make the wrong decision. I believe that falling into temptation is a learning problem. Some of us don't learn from our past mistakes. We repeat the same mistakes again and again. And if we don't look at our failures very seriously, they can become a habit that will be hard to change as we grow older. Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. "For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make [one] wise...