{"id":15331,"date":"2024-02-04T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=15331"},"modified":"2024-02-04T08:59:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T12:59:59","slug":"pride-is-not-the-root-of-all-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=15331","title":{"rendered":"Pride is not the root of all evil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems that may Christians fall for the quote: Pride is the root of all evil. It's a famous quote. It's in Hollywood, it's what our American Christians seem to love saying or using. They would conflate every bad thing with pride, to their errs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is likely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lectionarycentral.com\/trinity05\/Gregorymoralia2.html#:~:text=For%20pride%20is%20the%20root,%2C%20avarice%2C%20gluttony%2C%20lust.\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.lectionarycentral.com\/trinity05\/Gregorymoralia2.html#:~:text=For%20pride%20is%20the%20root,%2C%20avarice%2C%20gluttony%2C%20lust.\">from the<\/a> Roman Catholics. They (St. Gregory the Great) would source it from their apocryphal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Sirach%2010%3A12-18&amp;version=RSV\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Sirach%2010%3A12-18&amp;version=RSV\">Ecclesiasticus 10<\/a>: <strong><em>The beginning of pride is sin<\/em><\/strong>. This is nowhere found in Scripture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, <strong>1 Timothy 6:10<\/strong> did attribute the root of all evil to the love of money. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guizheng.net\/jiejing\/chuangshiji_tang\/03.htm\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.guizheng.net\/jiejing\/chuangshiji_tang\/03.htm\">Stephen Tong<\/a> clarified this from James 1:15, by emphasizing that pride is not the root, but self:<br>\u201c\u5df1\u201d\u8fc7\u5927 (over-satisfy)\uff0c\u4eba\u5c31\u8d2a\u5fc3\uff1b<br>\u201c\u5df1\u201d\u8fc7\u9ad8 (over-estimate)\uff0c\u4eba\u5c31\u9a84\u50b2\uff1b<br>\u201c\u5df1\u201d\u597d\u9762\u5b50 (narcissistic)\uff0c\u4eba\u5c31\u865a\u5047\uff1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that may Christians fall for the quote: Pride is the root of all evil. It's a famous quote. It's in Hollywood, it's what our American Christians seem to love saying or using. They would conflate every bad thing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=15331\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15334,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15331\/revisions\/15334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}