ARROGANCE VS. HUMILITY

You rebuke the arrogant,

who are cursed and stray from Your commands.

Psalm 110.21

To deny God is arrogant.

To deny God's truth, goodness, love, compassion—to deny God--comes from the blindness of the arrogant.

The arrogant presuppose self-sufficiency, something we all, except the arrogant, know is insufficient.

The arrogant are blind to nearly all reality, even as they claim to determine what reality is.

Arrogance is close-minded. Presuming self-sufficiency, the arrogant listened to nothing and no one, except to prove the other wrong and self right. 

In “proving other wrong/self right,” the arrogant are proud and hostile to all opposition.

In proud superiority, presumption, and self-exaltation, the arrogant dismiss all who do not submit to their pronouncements with scorn, mockery, and derision.

The proud and arrogant man--”Mocker” is his name;

he behaves with overweening pride.

Pro. 21.24

The eyes of the arrogant man will be humbled,

and the pride of men brought low;

the Lord alone will be exalted.

Isaiah 2.11

He guides the humble in what is right

and teaches them His way.

Psalm 25.9