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What it means, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord your God

The Bible forbids to do a certain kind of experiments, experiments with God. It is explained on an example of a time machine, that such an experiment may lead to your death or sickness.

(Mat. 4) “5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.”

An interesting question, how the devil transports Jesus to the pinnacle of the temple, does the devil posses teleportation abilities?

What Jesus says is that we should not do experiments on God. In other articles on this site I explain that God is present as a physical phenomenon in our universe. So, God forbids some physical experiments. (It is clear that some physical experiments should be forbidden: the sound sense for example forbids the experiment of bursting an A-bomb in a city.)

In this article I explain how God is related to time machine. Suppose, you have time machine and want to do this experiment: At 10am you get a piece of paper from the time machine and read “yes” or “no”. At 11pm you put there “no” if it was “yes” and “yes” if it was “no”, to transfer back to 10am. If it is “yes” it is “no”, and if it “no” it is “yes” – a contradiction! So, what would happen if you had a real time machine? It is unlikely that the Universe would cease to exist as some sci-fi writer said it would happen in this case. But it is likely that you will die or be too sick to reach the room with the machine, because the Universe logic eliminates contradiction. If you intend to do an experiment with God, you are likely to die. Not because God were evil, but by laws of logic.