Pride, self-esteem, and sin are topics, today. Also there are more points on how Christians can believe. The “Yahoo! Answers” fighter using ID “Violation Nation!!” (Level 3 with 2,065 points, a member since February 02, 2014) posted the following:
Is pride a sin?
I know God said it was but I'm pretty sure He doesn't know what He's talking about.
THE BATTLE AXE: How Can Christians Believe? (08/12/2014)—(4.) Even in small children, common sense and the inarguable facts of ones own abilities being finite and limited are frameworks along with faith as the foundation for belief in GOD. Bible accounts such as those of Creation, the Flood, and the covenant of Abraham may only accentuate, clarify, crystallize, and further verify the fundamental truths already in place as inborn consciousness. The Bible is intended to display and reveal divine actions and operations among created beings and living creatures. Thus, belief in what is written appears as obedience, respect, righteousness, and self-expression to maintain ones own integrity of being and person. Asking questions to belittle, challenge, insult, or embarrass others can be taken as acting with malice, rebellion, and “showing off.” The duty, privilege, and responsibility for Christian believers of all ages is that we give, minister and unselfishly share with others the sacred knowledge and divine content we each have been granted from GOD. A person whose idea of “helping out” is to discourage belief, hinder confidence in the Bible, and oppose the spiritual growth of others will be held accountable by GOD.
(5.) Because many in the church long for and insist upon believing they may have a carnal experience of GOD (where they see, hear, physically touch, or are touched by the Almighty), every meeting and assembly will include those who are confused, disappointed and frustrated. Such persons may disguise their anger, bitterness, and malice against GOD and the church, yet, can be recognized when they begin asking questions about sacred events (we say, miracles) to demand carnal and material details that have not been provided in the Bible. Their focus is not upon GOD as he appears in divine law, acts of power, and eternal purpose so much as upon the will of mankind and the spheres for life such as heaven and earth. Beliefs do not determine a person’s spirit content. Our spirit content comes to us directly from GOD; and our Spirit determines what we express and preserve as our sacred belief.
(6.) Even unborn children are endowed with spirit content from the makeup of GOD; and there were infants among those who stood at Sinai with Moses, who also heard the voice of GOD declaring the covenant and law for mankind. Ones spiritual content and power can not be increased through intellectual operations such as argument and debate. Thus, infants and the smallest children who are members and part of the full church body (some call them the “cradle roll”) are supplied to recognize those things that harmonize with their inner sense of GOD. Sacred instruction introduces information otherwise hidden and unavailable that must be immediately internalized through the “force of truth.” The process for church instruction, then, at every level and throughout the entire community of believers is never one simply to persuade or convince, to influence a person’s psychological makeup and intellectual understanding, or to manipulate emotion and feelings. See again 1st Samuel 1: 20-28, Psalms 8: 1-2, Psalms 131: 1-3, Mark 9: 41-43, Mark 10: 13-16, Romans 3: 3 and Hebrews 11: 6-7, KJV.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him. Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee. (Job 40: 6-14, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Responsible for Sin? (05/30/2014); Choosing a Church? (05/31/2014); Salvation is Conditional? (01/30/2014); Lower-case or Capital? (01/31/2014); On Producing Atheists (03/16/2013); The Children, not the Dogs (03/17/2013); Hero or Zero? (12/04/2012); The Adversary? (12/05/2012)
“Violation Nation!!”, here are a few points from Christian belief that may be familiar to you that are intended to combat corruption, spiritual confusion, ignorance, and pride:
(1.) Expressions of pride are not the same as those correctly recognizing ones own value (we say, self esteem, self regard, self appreciation). Pride is an assignment of value that is partly distorted and exaggerated by ones inability to discern and properly acknowledge content and substance in the living that are not material, physical, and social (i.e., that are spirit such as faith, holiness, joy, love, wisdom, wrath against sin). Therefore, pride is no less than false and unauthorized judgment of events, objects and persons under the hand of divinity.
(2.) All sin opposes the continued existence of divine law, the word (we say, breath, spirit, utterance) from Almighty GOD, and the divine order that maintains what we understand as Creation and the universe. In pride, finite beings (men or angels) indulge self-justification and self-promotion that foster separation from GOD and, in fact, are self-destruction.
(3.) Pride appears as a simple act of comparing (identifying sameness) and contrasting (identifying difference) oneself to others. At the same time a person places great value upon their own abilities, contributions, ideas and skills they fail and refuse to place correct value upon the abilities and contributions of others.
There is far more to be said, correctly understood, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (4.) Pride is an artifact of self awareness. Sin dominates created beings and living creatures through their awareness and self-will. Behavior and conduct may be described as “sinful”; however, sin has not been “created by GOD”, and sin is no “thing” having measurable dimensions and form. Sin has direction, effect, and “presence”; and sin—like pride—can not be eliminated apart from GOD through human tools such as algebra, intellect, logic, mathematics, philosophy, reason, and science.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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