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[wnylib]

11. That, too. LOL.

Tempting God for believers.

Tempting fate or the laws of physics for non-believers.

Personally, I like the story told in Matthew. It has richer, more personal and inspirational messages than simply saying, "Don't jump off a cliff or the laws of physics will snuff you out."

The Matthew story warns against egotism. It tells of a personal struggle of someone who desires to teach and lead others not to let it go to his head. It says that people are responsible for their own actions to be sensible and prudent and not to go off the rails in their beliefs.

I have no quarrels with science. But for me, religious stories offer spiritual and personal enrichment of life that science, because of its need to at least strive for objectivity, cannot and should not offer.

It's like the difference between prose and poetry, or a dry news story vs. a novel.