Mellen-Thomas Benedict's NDE Provided Answers, Because He ASKED

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Angelic Resurrection
I would know this better than you, don't you think.

No. I was a Third Order Carmelite (discalced) for many years. And a Third Order Franciscan before that. I am very well trained in what Christianity is and where its beliefs come from. Spiritual pride is a deep sin, according to the Christian faith. And I fully agree.

According to Christianity, faith is a gift from God. For you to be proud of that gift
is absurd. It didn't come from you. It came from God.

The devil had misplaced pride and it was his downfall.
Spiritual pride is the downfall of many, many Christians.

Apparently I DO know better than you on this. You'd be wise to listen.

edit on 10/20/2013 by FlyersFan because: (no reason given)

Angelic Resurrection
Heck you personify silliness.
I said, give Glory to the Lord for spiritual pride, gift of faith, Gift of Salvation Etc.

FlyersFan

Angelic Resurrection
Heck you personify silliness.
I said, give Glory to the Lord for spiritual pride, gift of faith, Gift of Salvation Etc.

Heck, you personify thickness ...
You can't give Glory to the Lord for a sin. Spiritual pride is a sin.
I already provided some of the theology. It's basic stuff. You should know better.
But that's what happens with spiritual pride ....

Angelic Resurrection
How can you cast out demons, if you lack spiritual pride.

BTW spiritual pride is not a sin.

PRIDE in any form and in anybody is a dangerous thing. In a worldly way the proverb is well attested, "Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall"; and surely very, very few people have anything of which they might justly be proud! Some who hold their heads high with the pride of a haughty spirit, as though they were especially created out of some preferable "dust of the earth," have really nothing to boast of as to ancestry. A very few generations back are generally sufficient for any boaster.

The world is learning that it is not wise to boast of riches, lest thereby some one ask how were the riches accumulated and by whom, and whether they were honestly obtained. Pride of education is not appropriate, either; for education in general signifies the learning of what other people have found out or have written as history. And in our day those who would boast of great education have need of humility lest it be found that the very thing that they are boasting about has been disproven by later researches. Scientific books of the year 1900 will not pass muster today, nor their theories stand in the light of present knowledge. So if it were right to boast of knowledge, the boaster would need to be very careful to keep up to date.

Pride of one's beauty or physical perfection is scarcely to be excused; for the beauty of form and feature came by heredity, and the parent rather than the child might have some reason for pride. Pride as respects clothing, adornments is also foolish. The maker of the fabrics or the ornaments might have some reason for pride in the handiwork, but surely the wearer has not! He is merely appropriating to himself the skill and labor of others.

SPIRITUAL PRIDE WORST OF ALL

The first and the worst cause of errors that prevail in such a state of things is spiritual pride. This is the main door by which the devil comes into the hearts of those who are zealous for the advancement of religion. It is the chief inlet of smoke from the bottomless pit, to darken the mind and mislead the judgment. This is the main handle by which the devil has hold of religious persons, and the chief source of all the mischief that he introduces, to clog and hinder a work of God. —This cause of error is the main spring, or at least the main support, of all the rest.

FlyersFan


READ WHAT PEOPLE POST! instead of just preaching at them.