(September 1, 2013 at 5:26 am)old man Wrote:(August 28, 2013 at 3:33 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: 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:
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.
An inflated sense? Often it is the accurate sense of personal status. People who lack self esteem would have a diminished sense of personal status. This varies from person to person. I find your assertions to be generalizations without basis.
I could make the same claim and say that people are often unsure of themselves and don't go for things they believe in out of fear of failure. It would sound as convincing as your claim and is also a baseless assertion.
It's obvious that there are people who are very sure of themselves and then there are those who can be manipulated with a look. I fail to see what this has to do with pride and what that has to do with religion.
Quote:(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.
In my example. You feel like I was making a decision out of pride that is not grounded in reality? Are you serious? You think I should see a witch doctor just because there's a slim chance they could be right and I could be wrong? I think you that you think too little of me, and not that I'm thinking too much of myself.
I'm sorry you think so little of yourself and others.
Quote: 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.
I stopped reading the moment I saw the word "satanic". I think you know why.
