(August 28, 2013 at 3:33 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote:(August 28, 2013 at 1:15 am)old man Wrote: In order to begin to see and understand the truth and the meaning of truth we must first be prepared to face up to the truth about ourselves.
Do you agree with what I wrote concerning our mental state Brakeman or not?
If not, can you tell me what the first sentence is that you cannot agree with and then explain why you disagree with it?
Pride has the ability to convince a man he is better than he is when he compares himself to certain others. This pride allows him and causes him at times to regard those others with disrespect, even contempt. From such a mindset it becomes easy to dismiss the true word of others as being irrelevant, unimportant or untrue whenever their statements are seen to conflict with any of his own selfish or self-important desires and plans. Whilst his pride is in control it becomes easy for him to cheat on and lie to anyone who he does not care for, especially those who he assesses as being less important or inferior to himself. As much as he is ready to ignore the truth and deceive others for his own gain, so he becomes equally ready to ignore the truth and deceive himself into thinking how good and right he is. The half-truths and lies of others are then easily welcomed by him as absolute truth whenever they feed and reinforce his feeling of superiority and pleasure. For as much as his self first desires become his needs, so also does his cravings for more leave him more vulnerable and subject to the temptations and corruption of those most crafty and evil. Their lies become more easily accepted by him as truth and therefore become more easily woven into his memory as truth.
From such lie infested memories are man's decisions and judgements too often formed. Whatever is being reasoned and perceived as truth and reality to all who have been corrupted by pride then is all too often an illusion. This state of mind is to some degree the inherited scourge of us all, breeding contempt and hatred for the truth along with paranoia, conflict, killing and destruction, just as the history of man will clearly testify.
Hey old man, I replied to this passage in your introductions thread, I don't know if you missed it. But I've quoted it and here it is in full:
(August 20, 2013 at 4:09 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: @old man, there are so many things wrong with that passage I don't even know where to start. But to begin with, your first sentence. Prove that.
Is it pride or is it reality that allows us to compare ourselves to others and form conclusions?
Pride is part of reality: Minds that have an inflated sense of personal status or accomplishments reassure themselves they are right when they are all too often wrong.
Too often they see their own conclusions superior for no good reason.
(August 20, 2013 at 4:09 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: Is it not an important skill that allows us to work with others and measure up our enemies? If I believe I'm a better scientist than a friend of mine who's doing a business degree, am I being prideful or am I being honest? Without this ability to discern others' how am I to make decisions everyday? Is it prideful of me to dismiss a witch doctor's advice when I'm sick because it doesn't comply with my existing knowledge about medicine? Or is it just common sense?
Common sense, yes. But it still doesn't alter the truth that common sense has been corrupted by the spirit of pride. People everywhere too often deceive themselves through sensing they are superior when they are not.
Sorry if you still can't see this vain deceiving world staring you in the face every day.
There are some who see and are saved and there are some who were born to live and die blind and lost, and there are those satanic souls who see and still seek to corrupt, torment, and destroy what they know is good, Their endless need to bury the truth and to see the only proven conveyor of truth, corrupted tormented or destroyed can only bring endless conflict with the self and with others, and endless conflict means endless torment. This self-inflicted endless nightmare will forever serve as the ultimate warning to all creation.
After the great tribulation when evil has been allowed to run it's course and reach it's climax on earth, and after the final judgement has been made and the last sentence has been passed, then shall all creation forever know exactly where the road of pride and rebellion leads. No free and perfect mind of reason therefore (as Satan and his followers once had) will ever be so foolish as to travel down what can now be seen as the insane road of pride and rebellion and threaten creation again.
“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love” 1John 4:18
May those of us then who will be saved, who are being saved and who are saved, soon be made perfect in the Spirit of perfect love.
