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Double-mindedness is a concept used in the philosophy and theology of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard as insincerity, egoism, or fear of punishment. The term was used in the Bible in the Epistle of James. [1] [2] Kierkegaard developed his own systematic way to try to detect double-mindedness in himself.
In the Parables, rods of various shapes and sizes represent different kinds of believers: the faithful, rich, double-minded, doubtful-minded, and hypocritical deceivers. These are allowed to repent – if they do not, they will lose eternal life (Her. Sim. 8.6–11).
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. The World English Bible translates the passage as: “No one can serve two masters, for either he
Bad faith is associated with being double minded, or of divided loyalty. (See theology section above .) The philosophy of loyalty examines unchosen loyalties, e.g., one does not choose one's family or country, but when there is excessive wrongdoing, there is a general unwillingness to question these unchosen loyalties, and this exhibits bad ...
Both the Novum Testamentum Graece (NA28) and the United Bible Societies (UBS4) provide critical text for the pericope, but mark this off with double square brackets, indicating that the Pericope Adulterae is regarded as a later addition to the text. [34] Various manuscripts treat, or include, the passage in a variety of ways.
In Calvinism, some people are predestined and effectually called in due time (regenerated/born again) to faith by God, all others are reprobated. Calvinism places more emphasis on election compared to other branches of Christianity. [4] The Doctrine of Predestination explained in a Question and Answer Format from a 1589/1594 Geneva Bible
Hypostatic union (from the Greek: ὑπόστασις hypóstasis, 'person, subsistence') is a technical term in Christian theology employed in mainstream Christology to describe the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one hypostasis, or individual personhood.
David Flusser, in a book titled Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, has taken the phrase "sons of light" to mean the Essenes; their closed economic system is contrasted with that of other people who were less strict. [13] A Confessional Lutheran apologist commented: Jesus' parable of the unjust manager is one of the most striking in all the Gospels.