Pope Francis, quoted here:
“Temptation is always present in our lives. Moreover, without temptation you cannot progress in faith,” he said.
If temptation is necessary to advance in faith, in vain do we pray "lead us not into temptation" as Jesus taught his disciples to pray, for then we would be praying not to make progress in faith according to the pope.
Only a Marxist would make faith and temptation antitheses from which a new synthesis of greater faith would ensue.
