How do you handle righteous arrogance?

I'd be leaving.....

Anyone who thinks they are somehow better than another one of Gods creation IMO is not really that good.

Remember Jesus's feelings about those who projected outward righteousness yet held themselves up as superior to other people. He really wasnt that positve

I'm a former hooker, pro domme, drug addict, thieft, self harmer, homeless person and mental case. I would not say that i am proud of alot of my history. I do believe it has contributed to who I am today and one of the reasons I happen to be a very good registered nurse

I believe the first step is to model humility. Lead by example.

It is wrong to look down on someone who is part of God's family and why God chose to confuse one race of people into many races and tribes - that's why large global church organizations such as Jehovah's Witness, or Mormon, focus on weekly bible study to help all races around the globe to be Christ-believers,
knowing that what Adam and Eve had done wrong, Jesus has been chosen as the only-begotten Son of God to sacrifice his life for our sins, so that what has been robbed from us, Jesus will return in his Second Coming and reveal our true super-genes for genius-intelligent minds and measure-perfect bodies of Christ:.
Genius-intelligent: speed-learning and speed-memorizing the Word of God for example, what would take a lifetime would only take most probably a couple of days. The chimpanzee has been tested for speed memory and is capable to place in order a set of 9 random numbers for example, that appear and disappear in a split second:.
Measure-perfect: Nobody will be too tall or small, too fat or thin, misshapen or limbless.
It will be interesting to discover if our transformation will turn out to be an all-adult society where all children and seniors, besides the rest, will be up-graded to the optimum youth age: 25 years old.;'*';.

Could you give examples of how they look down on you? We are all God's children although some reject Him. Sometimes people forget that.

Autumnleaf said:

I live with righteously arrogant people. They are good people who look down on people who they don't feel are as good as them. The problem is their ability to be good is easier than other people's because their needs are met. They've never had to grow crooked to reach the sunlight. How do you handle such people if you are compelled to be around them?

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Are they Christians? Or are they unbelievers? If they're Christians, I think you have the authority as a brother to point them to the teachings of Christ about humility. Urge them to repent of pride also. If they repent and listen to Christ's teachings, receive them as brethren. If they don't and continue to call themselves Christians, separate yourself from them.

If they're unbelievers, pray for them if verbal advice fails. But if their behavior is vexing you too much, stay away from them. We are asked to not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Don't let them draw you into sin or away from Christ.

Autumnleaf said:

I live with righteously arrogant people. They are good people who look down on people who they don't feel are as good as them. The problem is their ability to be good is easier than other people's because their needs are met. They've never had to grow crooked to reach the sunlight. How do you handle such people if you are compelled to be around them?

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Maybe help them realize we all are prone to grow crooked, in some ways more obvious than others. Any non-crookedness in any of us is an undeserved gift from God. Realizing this for yourself will also help you see your own crookedness and be patient with those crooked righteously arrogant people.

Autumnleaf said:

I live with righteously arrogant people. They are good people who look down on people who they don't feel are as good as them. The problem is their ability to be good is easier than other people's because their needs are met. They've never had to grow crooked to reach the sunlight. How do you handle such people if you are compelled to be around them?

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1. What do you mean that they are good people, if they in turn look down upon others ?

2. Im sure there are people out there like that, but, what is the chance that the Observer is Someone who is just jealous because they see Others portraying morality or good ethics while the Observer knows they aren't up to that speed (or don't care to live righteously) ?

3. Ones ability to do good is based upon a persons Will , regardless of circumstance and doesn't matter whether their needs are being met or not . I can have the need of a greater Friendship support system but can still choose to serve at a Soup Kitchen to help the downtrodden in society . Right ?

4. We have all had adversities and challenges which we have had to work around and I don't see how less of these anomalies in ones life coincides with one automatically being good or better than another . Cant a person whos had a lot of emotional trauma in their life still choose to live their life doing good to others in a variety of ways ?


I don't understand why you are equating the two since its a Persons WILL whether they choose to live correctly or not . Its a matter of whether they CHOOSE to suppress their moral conscience to get what they want or to CHOOSE to be lazy when having the opportunity to do something nice for another. Explain if you would. Thanks.

I was arrogantly self righteous. It helped to read the Bible about judging people is not our right. It helped that my brother and sister would point it out to me gently. It took having a dream where God told me that I was not without sin to finally break down and get that I was fallen as well. I always excuses for my behavior instead of just admitting that I had sinned. I still struggle with judging. It's its own type of sin, and I think it stems from arrogance. I just wanted everyone else to be at fault and for God to always be on my side, but God loves everyone. For me, I think, it stemmed from insecurity that I knew inwardly I was far more fallen than others, but just had not been in the trying circumstances where it would be obvious. Try to emphasis empathy and explain that if you break one part of the law you have broken the whole law, no matter how minor you may think it is.

How do you handle righteous arrogance?

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I close my mouth or stop writing. (-;

And then The Ultimate Challenge comes up when the holidays arrive.
Sometimes I step back and let them be themselves while I wash dishes or play with kids. Over the years I learned I need to say something, or they get more entrenched in it, and assume I agree.

But you live with them, and that is harder. It's important to keep your own core values, and not get swayed... but hard when they evaluate you on their criteria, and you always end up losing. They would probably never allow themselves to lose (in their minds), so that's not a battle worth fighting.

It took having a dream where God told me that I was not without sin to finally break down and get that I was fallen as well... wanted everyone else to be at fault and for God to always be on my side, but God loves everyone.

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And if we use that form of evaluating ourselves, then we miss the point of His Gospel!

But I think we all get into it from time to time, because we grew up needing to prove our worth at school, and show people how much we deserve acclaim for our hard work.
It's hard to unlearn that.

One must first recognize their own righteous arrogance.

When people say something judgemental about another person, I act like its not a big deal and speak from the point of view of the person who made the mistake. I may also say something about how we all fall short or about how we all have issues. When I use this method, the mistake is downplayed and it doesn't escalate into insults and judgement about the other person. When someone tries mention something negative you can combat it by being positive, then either the person will eventually agree with you or stop being judgmental around you because it makes them feel awkward when you don't agree. I hope this helps, God bless!