James 4:1,2
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Lust is normally considered a word with extremely negative connotations, but that is not necessarily so. In some cases in the New Testament, the word “lust’ simply describes a strong desire for something, which is neither inherently good or bad. In this case, however, the word has only a negative meaning. In fact, some Bible translations render this word as “pleasures” rather than “lusts.” Given the actual meaning of the word, this may be a better rendering of it.
This particular Greek word is where we get the English word “hedonism.” Simply put this describes “devotion to pleasure and self-gratification as a…
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