Pride
Everyone knows at least one person who is obnoxiously proud and no one enjoys being in their presence very long.
In his book, Humility, Andrew Murray states that pride is the root of all sin!
Everyone who has been a Christian very long knows that the Bible teaches that pride always leads to a fall, that GOD hates the prideful but honors the humble. The Bible equates pride with evil, the cause of the fall of Lucifer.
Why?
Pride causes people to think of themselves as better than everyone else and therefore they can do and say what they like: lie, cheat, steal, to lack common morality and common integrity. They are their own judge on what is proper and appropriate and do not care if their actions cause others harm or pain.
Pride causes a man to have sex with as many people as he wants; it causes him to have as many children as he has women and not be responsible for their care and upbringing or demand that the woman have an abortion. Pride causes a woman to have sex with as many people as she wants and to not care for or protect the children of those relationships, including having abortions.
Pride is the lie upon which racism is founded! To believe that you are better than anyone else based on your skin tone or any physical feature; on mental or intellectual prowess; on your own perceived common sense or that anything about yourself makes you not just better that others, but superior!
Pride produces hate! Hate leads to evil actions over other people!
Therefore pride is evil! And, all evil will be cast into the eternal lake of fire!
GOD knows our heart! Let Him show you any pride and repent of it, turn your life wholly to Him today!
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