Psychologists have a term for this splitting we all experience in our minds. It’s called cognitive dissonance. Cognitive Dissonance. It’s what happens when we disagree with ourselves. When two competing beliefs or values take up residence in our minds at the same time. 

And this concept is all over the Bible. The Psalmists and the Prophets talk about having a divided heart - literally, heart and heart, between our God and other gods, between God’s values and the competing values of the culture and community. 

And in our passage today, James coins a new term, never seen in Greek literature before he wrote: Dipsuchos. It literally means, two-souled. Double-minded. Split-Brain. 

All the while, God's deep desire is to transform split, disintegrated, self-protective hearts into whole, beating, unified, living ones.