The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Proverbs 8:13 KJV
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Proverbs 8:13 KJV
Vanity Jesus and vanity Satan
. Let's compare the true Jewish Messiah who was/is risen in glory found in the Bible and we know his attributes from Isaiah the wonderful prophet. Isaiah 53 tells us the exact truth but of course even today the devil gives the world vanity Jesus . So let's look at again the attributes of the true Christ in Isaiah 53:
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him .
We know he was easy and his burden is light. He was a humbled man and also a man that took authority with meekness and humbleness when he was on Earth. They say as a child he was fascinating and he was knowledge greatly. Even the Pharisees were puzzled where did this man get his knowledge he's never been to school and he said himself his knowledge comes from God. Proverbs 2:6-9 KJV And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? John 7:15 kjv
I believe another scripture says he had white wooly hair and we know what Revelation says about him and what is written on his thigh and all these other things and that he is the Lord of lords King of Kings the Alpha and the Omega. He is the word of God that became flesh and dwelt among us. So in other words we can indulge in the things written about him when he comes back with the armies of Heaven but that is not what I'm getting at right now it's the comparison of pride and humbleness and meekness and attributes of the true Christ he said who do people say that I am compared with Satan and his pride.
I'm going to provide the link reference where this is from and give them credit also but I want you if you're serious about being a true Christian read this and ask yourself questions do you see yourself in the true Messiah who had no pride no vanity but was who Isaiah the prophet said or do you see yourself different than this. What is the condition of your heart?
You see the Bible says You must be born again John 3:3 and actually when you're born again you're born again of uncorruptible seed.
His devious offer to Adam and Eve in the Garden is an echo of his challenge against God. This exercise of his pride separated him from God.
Pride, Satan's lofty feelings of superiority regarding his beauty, corrupted him . It deceived him into wanting even greater power to complement his splendor. After all, he deserved it, did he not? Notice how great he was in his own eyes!
John W. Ritenbaugh
Proverbs 21:4
The relationship between pride and sin is easily seen, but none seems to exist between either pride or sin and plowing . However, there is a link. Solomon is saying that just as surely as plowing precedes the produce of the earth, so does pride prepare the way for the produce of sin.
In some Bibles "plowing" may be translated "lamp." In this case, pride is depicted as a lamp that guides or lights the way into sin. In his poem, The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri listed pride among the seven great sins. In fact, he lists it first because, he concludes, it is the father of the others. Because of what the Bible reveals of Satan and his rebellion, he is probably correct.
John W. Ritenbaugh
Isaiah 2:6-18
In the vanity of our pride, we put our trust in material strengths. A sense of strength perverts our judgment, and soon we are in conflict with God and men . Twice in this brief section, God says He will bring low the haughtiness of men. The pride of Helel , who became Satan , hardly endeared him to God—it eventually brought him into open conflict with Him! He was cast down (brought low) to earth, but because his pride is still influencing him, the worst is yet to come. And in the interim, he is infecting us with his most dangerous attribute.
John W. Ritenbaugh Pride, Contention, and Unity
Isaiah 2:7-11
Everywhere, the Bible shows the same principle: Pride has its roots in a feeling of wealth or accomplishment, which is then used to compare. We can tie this to Satan and what is written about him in Ezekiel 28, how pride arose within him because of his beauty . He had something to brag about that made him feel good. But his vanity, developing into outright pride, began to get to him. He began to feel better than the other angels, and eventually, in his own eyes, he equated himself with God . In time, he thought of himself as greater than God—a very perverted comparison.
It does not have to be intelligence or beauty or power as it was with Satan. It could be things like money, position, social position, natural ability, social status, knowledge, strength, hair, clothing, a house, furniture, automobile—the list is virtually endless. In the New Testament, the Greek is huperephania , which means "to show oneself above." It does not imply one who others look up to, but one who stands on his own self-created pedestal.
Psychologists tell us that pride is actually a mark of inner inferiority and uncertainty, and such people compensate by over-emphasizing and flaunting the qualities that they think they possess that will make others think well of them. This feeling of wealth is highly relative because each person is capable of setting his own standards of comparison, regardless of his real accomplishments.
Proverbs 26:16 speaks of the sluggard who is wiser in his own eyes than all others, who can render more answers than seven wise men can. Although he is virtually devoid of anything that anybody would consider worth bragging about, the sluggard has created his own set of standards. He thinks he already knows the answers. He has a feeling of wealth, of prosperity, of power, or of security in whatever standard he in his own conceptions has set. He is so sure that he knows the answers that he is undeterred by facts and continues then in his ignorance. He is self-sufficient.
John W. Ritenbaugh
In my afterthoughts after notes if you truly love the true Christ then you will take the time to read what's on this page and ask yourself a lot of questions. Do you read the Bible and do you take God's name in vain and are you doing things that the Bible says are an abomination unto God. You should know what these things are if you claim to be a Christian. Pride is what the devil had in his own vanity. Christ the true Christ his attributes are not of the devil but the people that are of the devil have fruits with similarities to the devil. And as true believers once you become a true believer these things become obvious. When was the last time you read the Holy scriptures and prayed let alone knew what counterfeit Christianity is as opposed to biblical Christianity truly is? Here's what is written in scripture:
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Credits the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob Jewish Jesus of Nazareth - Emmanuel God With Us. The Apostles. The Jewish Prophets. And of course John W. Ritenbaugh