In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? | |
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Janine69 User ID: 8004531 United States 11/07/2012 05:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? "In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? All those who, simply because they have a certain intellectual ability, count only on themselves. They don’t recognize the existence of a higher intelligence that governs the universe; they trust only in their limited brain. This is why they will be brought down. In other words, they will be deprived of some of those abilities they prize so highly, whereas those who do not have this absolute self-confidence, who say to the Lord, ‘You alone possess the light. Enter into me, Lord; inspire me,’ possess true humility. Thanks to this humility, their minds become more penetrating, and the mysteries of the universe begin to reveal themselves to them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27206302 Pride is a fault of the intellect. The proud rely too much on the way they see and understand things. It never occurs to them that there might be better points of view about things. No, no, their reasoning is faultless. Well, it is hardly surprising if their thinking becomes more narrow and rigid with each passing year. " Obviously Willard Romney. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20241035 United States 11/07/2012 05:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? King Nebuchazzar claimed he built the palace and God immediately banished him to live with the animals until he recognized God was sovereign Pharaoh claimed that he created the Nile. God then said Egypt would NEVER again be a great nation. Moses, in a moment of anger, said "must WE bring you water?" and God then didn't allow Moses to enter the promised land. It is claiming the works of God as your own. God is sovereign, NOT man. |
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dschis1000 User ID: 19590683 United States 11/07/2012 09:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? It depends on the time and place. History has many examples. The most recent is the Republican Party. Some of us have tried to warn them, but it fell on deaf ears. Now it's in the hands of our Heavenly Father |
Jovian User ID: 23348013 United States 11/07/2012 09:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? I was talking to an older gentlemen acquaintance this weekend, and he was kind of grilling me about what "success" in life is, in a Socratic fashion. He asked me what it means to be "poor in spirit," in Jesus' expression, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." He offered that it meant to be without pride. I am currently trying to read a book he gave me, "The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life," by Emmet Fox, an older classic, of sorts. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 15030519 United States 11/07/2012 09:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? This is interesting you bring this up. Quoting: Jovian 23348013 I was talking to an older gentlemen acquaintance this weekend, and he was kind of grilling me about what "success" in life is, in a Socratic fashion. He asked me what it means to be "poor in spirit," in Jesus' expression, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." He offered that it meant to be without pride. I am currently trying to read a book he gave me, "The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life," by Emmet Fox, an older classic, of sorts. Regarding the bold, I think there's a notation in a Bible a have that it "poor in spirit" = not spiritually arrogant. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 11998544 United States 11/07/2012 10:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? "In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? All those who, simply because they have a certain intellectual ability, count only on themselves. They don’t recognize the existence of a higher intelligence that governs the universe; they trust only in their limited brain. This is why they will be brought down. In other words, they will be deprived of some of those abilities they prize so highly, whereas those who do not have this absolute self-confidence, who say to the Lord, ‘You alone possess the light. Enter into me, Lord; inspire me,’ possess true humility. Thanks to this humility, their minds become more penetrating, and the mysteries of the universe begin to reveal themselves to them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27206302 Pride is a fault of the intellect. The proud rely too much on the way they see and understand things. It never occurs to them that there might be better points of view about things. No, no, their reasoning is faultless. Well, it is hardly surprising if their thinking becomes more narrow and rigid with each passing year. " Obviously Willard Romney. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27297464 Switzerland 11/08/2012 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? "A proud person is one who imagines he is dependent on nothing and no one, exactly like a lamp which claims to be the source of light, forgetting that the power station supplies the current. One who is humble, on the contrary, knows that he is not an isolated being, that he is not independent, and that if he does not remain linked to heaven, he will have neither force, light nor wisdom. He senses that he is a link in an infinite chain, the conductor of a cosmic energy which comes from afar and flows through him to all other human beings. A proud person forgets the source of the currents which manifest through him; he believes he is dependent only upon himself, and sooner or later he loses everything. The humble person is a valley irrigated by the water that descends from the peaks to fertilise the plains; he receives forces that pour forth constantly from the mountains and thus knows abundance. We have not yet understood all the riches that humility holds for us." |
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Richard S. User ID: 25056914 Germany 11/08/2012 10:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? Everyone who doesn't want to end up as my willing tool, will be on my hit list. What he doesn't tell though: You are not in the universe, the universe is IN you(r mind) and so is this entity. :) |
drhoecker User ID: 27307992 United States 11/08/2012 10:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? "In the Psalms, it is said that God brings down the proud and lifts up the humble. Who are ‘the proud’? All those who, simply because they have a certain intellectual ability, count only on themselves. They don’t recognize the existence of a higher intelligence that governs the universe; they trust only in their limited brain. This is why they will be brought down. In other words, they will be deprived of some of those abilities they prize so highly, whereas those who do not have this absolute self-confidence, who say to the Lord, ‘You alone possess the light. Enter into me, Lord; inspire me,’ possess true humility. Thanks to this humility, their minds become more penetrating, and the mysteries of the universe begin to reveal themselves to them. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27206302 Pride is a fault of the intellect. The proud rely too much on the way they see and understand things. It never occurs to them that there might be better points of view about things. No, no, their reasoning is faultless. Well, it is hardly surprising if their thinking becomes more narrow and rigid with each passing year. " the proud is everyone stuck on themselves and their attitude of being superior |