Temptation isn’t the same thing as hardship or trials. Or am I interpreting it wrong? I thought that verse was encouraging us in our battles of the flesh, that no temptation will be so strong that can’t avoid succumbing to sin.
The statement referred to in the post is, in my experience, used by people talking about trials and hardships out of our control.
Indeed. I agree with you that the verse is about TEMPTATION, and not the miseries of disease and death. However, it would seem that many popular proverbs have arisen that people THINK is Scripture but isn’t.
I remember as a child, seeing a poster in the window of a Christian Science Reading Room that said:
JESUS SAID IT IS BETTER TO LIGHT ONE CANDLE THAN TO CURSE THE DARKNESS.
Years later, while studying the Bible, i found out that Jesus never said that at all.
But it sure looked good on a poster.
I read about a Coptic Christian who was asked to renounce Jesus or his children would be tortured to death. (Muslim). He did and has been grieving since because he thinks he can’t be forgiven. That is clearly temptation beyond what almost anyone can bear.