Are Christians Arrogant?

Since Christianity is an exclusive religion (John 14:6), many pluralistic Postmodernists accuse Christianity and Christians of being boastful. They claim that since truth cannot be known, nobody could make a claim to absolute truth (which is, after all, self-refuting since that’s itself an absolute truth claim). I actually have tried to display elsewhere that simply making a claim to know truth isn’t necessarily boastful, but might be as an alternative a most reasonable assertion.

A Helpful Analogy 
The gospel might be in comparison with one beggar telling one other beggar where he found bread. 

There is nothing boastful about that. 

The problem is that the skeptic believes that bread doesn’t actually (moral truth) exist. He believes that bread is a social construct, an illusion that we created, to assist us feel higher in regards to the incontrovertible fact that we have now a gnawing ache in our stomach. His concept of bread (what it’s and where it could actually be found) seems just as equal and valid as your concept of bread. 

What angers him is whenever you attempt to persuade him that the bread you had for breakfast was real, tangible bread. He says this can’t be because that’s found on (what I actually have called in one other article series) the “upper floor” (e.g. values, moral truth) and only things on the “Lower Floor” (e.g. matter, energy) are real to him. 

Why We Shouldn’t Be Arrogant
God’s wisdom is limitless. If wisdom were known as monetary wealth, God would have so many trillions of dollars of wisdom you could not count all of it. If you’re His servant (which you’re if you happen to are a Christian), and He gives you 50 billion dollars to speculate. How do you invest wisdom? You do it within the lives of other people. You take what God has given you and also you give it to others and train them to share with others.

What if someone thinks you’re boastful because you could have so many “dollars” of wisdom? Well, actually, God found you lying face down within the gutter, penniless, hopeless, helpless and alone. He selected you and made you a steward. You don’t own anything!

You haven’t any reason to be boastful. Iit isn’t fair for people to accuse you of arrogance, if indeed you recognize the cash isn’t yours and also you act accordingly. You are broke if you happen to lose His checkbook. So, if someone has an issue with all that wealth, he is absolutely only indignant at God because God is so wealthy and he’s so poor. 

The excellent news is, we are able to share in God’s inheritance. 

Consider Revelation 3:17: “You say, ‘I’m wealthy; I actually have acquired wealth and don’t need a thing.’ But you don’t realize that you just are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined in the hearth, so you’ll be able to change into wealthy; and white clothes to wear, so you’ll be able to cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to placed on your eyes, so you’ll be able to see.”

Our goal isn’t to flaunt our bread, or our wealth (because we create neither), but merely to share with others the one Who has an infinite supply of “every little thing we want for all times and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.” (2 Peter 2:3).

1 John 1:13 “I write these items to you who imagine within the name of the Son of God in order that it’s possible you’ll know that you could have everlasting life.

1 John 1:13 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, in order that we may know Him who’s true. And we’re in Him who’s true–even in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and everlasting life.

Luke 1:1 “Many have undertaken to attract up an account of the things which were fulfilled amongst us, just as they were handed all the way down to us by those that from the primary were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. Therefore, since I actually have fastidiously investigated every little thing from the start, it seemed good also to me to write down an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that it’s possible you’ll know the knowledge of the things you could have been taught.”

How can this objective, absolute truth be known?

“Jesus said, ‘If you hold to my teaching, you’re really my disciples. Then you’ll know the reality, and the reality will set you free.'” (John 8:31)

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