God cannot be tempted

Why can't God be tempted by evil? Did you ever really stop and think about that? If you go back in the Old Testament, you can find places where it says, the children of Israel put God to the test, and where this very word is used. They did test him...[But James is using the term tempted with its other meaning when he says, God cannot be tempted. He means that] God was not enticed toward evil; he was not allured by that which was evil. Why is God never enticed toward that which is evil? The answer is very simple, God is absolutely holy. And because he is absolutely holy, there is absolutely nothing in evil which is attractive to God. There is no way in which the devil or any man or angel or anyone else, can bring before God anything that will in the slightest degree attract him if it is evil. That is because God's nature is absolutely holy.

Now you can reverse that and say, well, what about Satan? It would be impossible for anyone to allure and entice Satan to that which is good, because the Bible says he is thoroughly and completely and totally wicked. Thus, anything that is good, pure, holy, and just that is put before Satan...can never in any way—[no matter what you do]—be made attractive to Satan because his nature is completely evil.¹

G. I. Williamson