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Holier than Thou

By Robertson, John, on December 29th, 2011

Most of us have heard the accusation hurled our way or at someone else.  The accuser says, “You have a holier than thou attitude.”  Could this accusation ever apply to a member of the body of Christ?

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Comments are closed   Attitudes, Christian Living, Ignorance, Meekness, Self-Justification, Subject Index

Can We Talk About Your Porn Stash?

By Smith, Jeff, on March 5th, 2011

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This article contains frank discussion of a sensitive subject matter and might not be appropriate for young readers. Please exercise discretion.

You would rather not talk about your porn stash and I can understand that. I would rather not talk about it either.

If you grew up in the 1960s, 70s, or 80s, it might have been hidden between your mattress and box springs, a stack of dirty magazines mailed to you from Hugh Hefner or Bob Guccione. Maybe your father had one, too, and you happened upon it, innocently enough one day, as you rifled through his night table, looking for … well, it doesn’t matter.

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Comments are closed   Fornication, Self-Control, Self-Justification, Sin, Subject Index

In the Steps of the Savior: Self-Justification

By Osborne, Harry, on August 1st, 2001

Scoffing at Truth, Promoting a Lie

Jesus had much to say in condemnation of the Pharisees’ attitudes and actions. In Luke 16:13, Jesus stated the same truth regarding priorities affirmed in the sermon on the mount: "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other: or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (see also Matthew 6:19-34). Rather than making the correction to their own lives shown to be necessary by Jesus’ teaching, the Pharisees "scoffed" at Jesus (Luke 16:14). The word translated "scoffed" is the Greek word ekmukterizo which literally referred to the act of turning one’s nose up in derision. It was inconceivable to the Pharisees that a simple person like Jesus might be right and they might be wrong. Hence, their reaction was one of self-justification. As deity in the flesh, Jesus knew their hearts and reminded them that their efforts to justify themselves before men did not alter the fact of their abomination before God (Luke 16:15).

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