This is a tough question that I have always had a problem answering. Not only has our culture made me feel uneasy about being arrogant, but doesn't the loving side of my Christian faith leave no room for arrogance?
On the other side of things, don't I believe that I have the only correct answer? That nothing else matters? What else could be so deserving of arrogance?
Hmm. Well I had been thinking about this for some time and not coming up with the solution until just recently.
Look all the way back into 1 Kings 18.
This passage tells about how the prophet Elijah was so confident in his God that he challenged the prophets of Baal to a God-off. Basically a, "let's see who's god is better!" Right off the bat that feels so arrogant and uncomfortable doesn't it? But Elijah doesn't stop there. The challenge that he lays out before the prophets of Baal, in front of a large crowd of people I might add, is to make an altar and lay a sacrificial bull on the altar and call upon their gods to call down fire from the heavens to consume the sacrifice.
The prophets beg their gods for an entire day, from morning to evening. By noon it says that Elijah was mocking their gods!
"27 And so it was, at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.”"
How not PC that is. This passage leads me to believe that not only should we be confident in our faith, but we should be openly confident! Something which can easily be seen as arrogance...
-Robert D.
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