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Okay, well give me the alternative word then that you would use if a parent were to say "I am proud of my son."
Like I said, it would be better if we had a better word to use since indeed the scriptures do condemn pride.
Since we don't, it's not right to condemn (instruct maybe) those who use it in good conscience.
You and I are splitting hairs. As we both are sinners and condemned if not redeemed by the blood of Christ, we should focus on more important things.
I don't know about you but I have vices, just as everyone does (some vices are worse than others) that if I do not excise from my life I might be in big trouble.
If I'm truly saved though I will get victory over them. Romanism is basically works unfortunately (and works alone will damn you), and you never know if one day you're okay and the next you're not.
Once saved though, one is never lost, and although 'works' do follow salvation, a true believer will make it to the end in spite of missteps and failings which will plague a Christian all the days of his life.
Why not read the works of the Reformers and puritans?
If you can't feel pride about your own achievements, why should it be okay to feel pride about your offspring?
Aren't your sons achievements partially your own? Given that you taught him and he shares half your genes. You had a lot of influence. Does your sense of pride become a perversion the moment you notice you had some influence on it?
Let's say we do invent a word for that kind of pride. Do we then invent words for the pride you feel for working hard? And a new word for the pride you feel after overcoming addiction. Yet another word for the pride of having a happy and lasting marriage where you are both good and loyal to each other. A new word for having communal pride, national pride and so on?
We can see if we can develop as many words as the leftists. Just like them we'll water down language until it's lost all original meaning, all due to ideology. Maybe we can invent more words for pride than they can invent words for genders.
Or we just say fuck Judeo-Christianity and are without any shame or guilt openly prideful about our offspring, ancestors and nation.
Those types 'pride' (accomplishments) are okay if they are pleasing to God and conscience. If we acknowledge God as the chief cause.
Like I said, we need a new word, someone didn't do us a favor by letting the word be used for a lawful sense of accomplishment (only as it pleases, or is pleasing, to God, and doesn't violate conscience).
So our debate is really about semantics. And we're splitting hairs when we should be focusing on those sins that damn one's soul.
All sins do but some are worse than others, in a sense of degree. I guess Romanists would use the terms venial and mortal.
>Just like them we'll water down language until it's lost all original meaning, all due to ideology>>
Right, see my comment above.
What's your vice?
Those types 'pride' (accomplishments) are okay if they are pleasing to God and conscience.
And if you yourself find them pleasing? After all one can accomplish without feeling pride. Like a machine, not human.
And what about accomplishments like getting rich? Or powerful?
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