How the Bible Warns Us About Narcissistic Behavior
Manipulation: Controlling Others
8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are
noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things.
Bible Gateway passage: Philippians 4:8 — New King James Version
What are you going to obtain if you locate someone who is willing to follow this?
A person who is honored, upright, and courteous toward others.
In what way does one benefit from someone who flips something around?
Someone who is wicked, unfair, and who is perverse.
14 Seek good and not evil,
That you may live;
So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,
As you have spoken.
15 Hate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
It may be that the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Bible Gateway passage: Amos 5 — New King James Version
What are you going to obtain if you locate someone who is willing to follow this?
An someone who works to overcome evil and promotes good. A person who, wherever they go, seeks for and discovers good, and when they find bad, they chastise and avoid it.
In what way does one benefit from someone who flips something around?
One who takes pleasure in evil, discovering ever new methods to engage in evil, carry out evil, think evil thoughts, and experience evil feelings; a person who takes pleasure in evil.
37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 22:37–39 — New King James Version
What are you going to obtain if you locate someone who is willing to follow this?
A person who loves the truth, loves the good, and loves their neighbor more than anything else.
In what way does one benefit from someone who flips something around?
An individual who is the adversary of the truth and the good, as well as the adversary of one’s neighbor, friend, family, mankind, and God.
What precisely is it about the narcissist’s mentality that is so twisted?
Imagine that you have the power to tell the truth, that you have the potential to love the person who is in front of you, that you have the ability to seek the truth and seek amicability, but instead you choose to conduct yourself in the opposite manner.
Furthermore, let’s say that you continue to do this throughout your whole life, completely constructing your personality in accordance with the principles of searching out lies and causing conflict and animosity.
Let’s take it a step further and assume that it’s not only your character that has been ruined as a result of your persistently poor decisions; it’s also your worldview, your viewpoint, and your fundamental sense of reality and human relationships that have been ruined, to the point where you are wearing the opposite of rose-colored glasses.
To what extent would it impact you?
Every single person, including yourself, would be seen as bad by you. From that point on, the whole globe is a combat royale, and only the strongest will live. Within the framework of survival games, therefore, nefarious deeds make complete and utter logic. All of the men are competing against each other.
How can one become the most physically fit?
Be the most deceitful. Attempt to steal the most. Kill the most difficult. Take out the most difficult. Show that you are the most skilled in deceitful maneuvers.
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Bible Gateway passage: John 10:10 — New King James Version
44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
Bible Gateway passage: John 8:44 — New King James Version
When it comes to comprehending the narcissist’s mentality, the term “sink” is the most important.
Uphold is the term that is an opposite.
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