The compliment thread semed to bring out something that I have seen so many times in Mennonite circles and even in my own life.
It has been hammered into our psyche that pride is evil and must be repented of. To many time this has brought about lack of self-esteem and in some cases a crippling inferiority complex.
Let's discuss pride, self-esteem, and the inferiority complex.

Inferiority at it's core is pride. It is the result of an extreme focus on self.

2Co 5:12* We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.




Paul spoke of pride, and not always in a negative way.

This verse here speaks of the pride he has in people doing inwardly right and that can answer those who take pride in external legal obediences like the holdeman people do.


exactly what "carnal pride" and the evils that goes with it, may well be tough to explain, but certainly it is not to dress or play computer games or not.


Pride is the thing that Lucifer suffered and was kicked out of heaven for. the pride specifically of setting oneself higher than the authority given to the congregation,


12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:




Hmmm.... who knows of a group of men that are called to be servants to the congregation, but have lifted their status to authority?


Now, let's talk about the pride the bible condemns.

OriginalSinnick



It has been hammered into our psyche that pride is evil and must be repented of. To many time this has brought about lack of self-esteem and in some cases a crippling inferiority complex.
Let's discuss pride, self-esteem, and the inferiority complex.


Does the scripture say to go to the lifted conference spirits and allow them to to prove whether you are in the faith?

2Co 13:5* Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Ga 6:4* But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.



or does it say to examine the people who have lifted themselves by lies and therefore evil "lucerfian" pride to be your spiritual authority?

1Jo 4:1* Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.


Now, in the light of the fact that the leaders of the holdeman church feel they have a right to be authority when God called them to be in subjection to the congregation, no bible reading and believing man could conclude that they are anything but "Lucifer" followers, since the pride of Lucifer led him out of heaven, so the pride of the lifted servants leads them out of the kingdom of truth. Therfore, one can conclude that the otc is the the same church taht their fater lucifer started during the rebellion in heaven!



So, take the people doing the "hammering", and since they are "the prophets" look carefully at their fruits and prove them.


Then examine yourself, ask your spouse and family, and personal friends if they are seeing blind spots in your life, but stay away from Lucifer's ministers the ordained in the CGCM. For they have stolen your birthright by legal deception!

And have since they voted themselves to be the absolute authority

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What is Inferiority Complex?

Inferiority Complex is a feeling that one is inferior to others in some way. It is a state of mind in which a person who has a morbid feeling of being inferior to others may try to win recognition for himself by boasting and being agressive. When a person feels that he is not as good as other people or feels defeated or is being rejected, this is indeed the very moment that inferiority complex comes in and weighs a person down. It could pull the feeling of the afflicted person deep down to the bottom of the canyon and not reaching out to the sunlight. Inferiority complex is a kind of energy which could destroy a person and make him feels like living in a world of darkness, living each day as if it is a doomsday. Or it is a kind of power which could boost a person to achieve something great in life and feel as if given a second chance to live. In the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis, inferiority complex is a feeling that could arise from an imagined or actual inferiority in the afflicted person. Such feeling is in the subconscious mind and could drive the person to obtain spectacular achievement or it could cause the person to be extreme in the behaviour.

I once heard Greg Dyck preach a powerful message on feelings of inferiority. Like Mark, he taught that an inferiority complex stemmed from a pride. For personal reasons, this was a powerful message that has stayed with me throughout the years.

He used the analogy of this complex as an elevator in a building that once you got on only could stop at the basement (inferiority) or top floor (superiority). These people seemed unable to find the middle ground. Most of the their life is spent in the basement with occasional mad rushes to the height of superiority which lasts only briefly before they plunge back down into feelings of inferiority.

He explained that in counseling with people who deal with inferiority complex that this type of wild swinging between feelings of inferiority and superiority were quite common.

I would love to hear more thoughts on this topic.

Psy,
I love the analogy of the elevator. Both inferiority and superiority come from the same root...an unrealistic focus on self.