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    Traits of Narcissists: 12 More According to Paul

    The various traits of narcissists as told by Paul is so extensive it is taking two full blogs to cover the list. I  am going to attempt to list twelve of the traits that I missed in my first post. I consider these traits of narcissists as important as the first list. ( see here) I suppose that the first time I read 2 Timothy 3, I was too enmeshed in an abusive system to really understand the moral weight of it. Later, I read it without really understanding the term, narcissist, but began to see the correlations between what I suffered at the hands of my ex and the…

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    The Concept of Narcissism in the Bible: Part 1

    The concept of narcissism was called out by Paul long before Psychology sank its teeth into the idea as a personality disorder. But having just created a list of fifteen narcissistic traits, I thought I would see how Paul did it. And it strikes me as very interesting that Paul says these men would surface in the last days. NPD, or Narcissistic Personality Disorder, didn’t make it into the DSM until 1980. Paul nailed it sometime in the first century. I am just going to go one by one and look deeply at the concept of narcissism according to Paul. I find it very instructional and somewhat painful, as my…

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