RE: Question to Christians re humility
October 5, 2012 at 7:05 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2012 at 7:18 pm by Reasonable_Jeff.)
(October 1, 2012 at 2:32 am)Doubting_Thomas Wrote: The slave to god thing is another oddity in my book. If we are mere slaves, why do we have free will.
Not all Protestants believe that you do have free will. I don't think you do.
Free will seems to me to be more of an illusion than a reality.
(September 30, 2012 at 6:23 pm)Doubting_Thomas Wrote: One of the criticisms we often see levelled against Atheism, and particularly scientifically argued atheism, is that the doubters are "arrogant" and should be more "humble".
What is really meant by this, is there a Christian-specific meaning to humility? We all know the dictionary definitions, but I'm confused how any such criticism isn't equally or more-so applicable to the religious position?
This is just an argument ad hominem, bad reasoning from us Christians. Your humbleness or arrogance has nothing to do with whether or not the proposition is true or false.
However, in regards to your question about, "what do Christians mean when they say 'humble'?"
Humility in a Christian sense is treasuring God and his will above your own. Like Drich said, a Christian submits to God as a slave would to a master. The Bible says you are either slaves to sin or slaves to righteousness.
Romans 6:16–18 (RSV) — 16 Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
