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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.
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.
It is believed probable that the clause was inserted here by assimilation because the corresponding version of this narrative, in Matthew, contains a somewhat similar rebuke to the Devil (in the KJV, "Get thee hence, Satan,"; Matthew 4:10, which is the way this rebuke reads in Luke 4:8 in the Tyndale (1534), Great Bible (also called the Cranmer ...
The author is identified as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" (James 1:1). James (Jacob, Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, romanized: Ya'aqov, Ancient Greek: Ιάκωβος, romanized: Iakobos) was an extremely common name in antiquity, and a number of early Christian figures are named James, including: James the son of Zebedee, James the Less, James the son of Alphaeus, and James ...
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 ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. The New International Version translates the passage as: Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace,
Biblical literalism or biblicism is a term used differently by different authors concerning biblical interpretation.It can equate to the dictionary definition of literalism: "adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense", [1] where literal means "in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical".
The First Apocalypse of James is a Gnostic apocalyptic writing. [1] Its initially rediscovery was a Coptic translation [ 2 ] as the third tractate of Codex V in the Nag Hammadi library . [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Additional copies were later found in Coptic as part of the Codex Tchacos [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and in Greek among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri .