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1 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | stjohn | 216551 | ||
What is pride? A liar? A thief? What? What is it? Why is it so bad? What is it about pride that God hates so much? It hardly seems equal to, murder, or sexual perversion! Oh my! We don’t even want to mention, that. Mass killings by suicide bombers that kill so many innocent people! Villagers hacked to peaces by machete wilding hooligans! Oh, how we cringe at the very thought! But pride, seems so, benign…. After all, it doesn’t go round with a sword, removing the heads of the innocent: Does it? What is so bad, about pride? Well then, what was it that caused the fall of Lucifer? The most beautiful of all God’s Angels: The one that some say led the songs of praise to, The Most High God! And what was it that he said to Eve in the garden that beguiled her and caused her to sin against God? Did he ask her to lie or steal or kill, or what? What was it? What was so bad about just taking a bite of the fruit, and why was she so willing to disobey God? Was it pride? Why did she do it? What was so compelling about that fruit? What was it that satin said about the fruit that caused her to want it so badly? He said: “when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God” Isn’t that just exactly what got Lucifer (the devil) domed to the fire? Wasn’t it that he, in his pride, wanted to be like God? Now we know what that first sin of disobedience brought into the world. Why, it brought of course, all of the sins in the entire world, for all time, and all the horrible things we have seen that were before mentioned. Yes, it is pride that is the father of all sin. Let us pray for the power of God’s Holy Spirit to work in our hearts and tear down that wall of pride that so deceitfully and vigilantly guards our hearts from God’s wonderful, redeeming, and sanctifying GRACE. "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Eph 2:8-9 "nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified." Gal 2:16 John "Pride can often be used to beat down the simpler vices.... Many a man has overcome cowardice, or lust, or ill temper by learning to think that they are beneath his dignity -- that is, by Pride. The devil laughs. He is perfectly content to see you become chaste and brave and self-controlled provided, all the time, he is setting up in you the Dictatorship of Pride.... For Pride is a spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense." - C. S. Lewis |
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2 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | flinkywood | 216565 | ||
St John, I found this in answer to your piece on pride. "Cutting off What Keeps Us from God" I was led back to the opening pages of the Book of Genesis, to the event known as "original sin." Saint Augustine, with extraordinary perceptiveness, described the nature of this sin as follows:.amor sui usque ad contemptum Dei-.self-love to the point of contempt for God. It was amor sui (self love) which drove our first parents toward that initial rebellion and then gave rise to the spread of sin throughout human history. The Book of Genesis speaks of this: "You will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gn 3:5), in other words, you yourselves will decide what is good and what is evil. The only way to overcome this dimension of original sin is through a corresponding amor Dei usque ad contemptum sui- love for God to the point of contempt of self. This brings us face to face with the mystery of man's redemption, and here the Holy Spirit is our guide. It is he who allows us to penetrate deeply into the mysterium Crucis and at the same time to plumb the depths of the evil perpetrated by man and suffered by man from the very beginning of his history. That is what the expression "convince the world about sin" means, and the purpose of this "convincing" is not to condemn the world. If the Church, through the power of the Holy Spirit, can call evil by its name, it does so only in order to demonstrate that evil can be overcome if we open ourselves to amor Dei usque ad contemptum sui. This is the fruit of Divine Mercy. In Jesus Christ, God bends down over man to hold out a hand to him, to raise him up, and to help him continue his journey with renewed strength. Man cannot get back onto his feet unaided: he needs the help of the Holy Spirit. Pope John Paul II |
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3 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | DocTrinsograce | 216570 | ||
Dear flinkywood, Might I suggest that we cite scholarship of those who share the conviction -- as all forum participants do -- of the doctrine of Sola Scriptura? Anti-Sola Scriptura folks sometimes get things right. As a friend of mine used to say, "Even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then." But part of persuading folks is to know your audience. You won't gain much mileage with most of us quoting the head of an organization who anathematized the gospel. In Him, Doc |
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4 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | stjohn | 216573 | ||
Amen, and thanks! | ||||||