Pride

God does not denigrate pride in its positive sense. The Bible has a hundred ways to illustrate the quiet feeling of competence that lies behind one's ability to do what he knows he has to do and can do.

The apostle Paul's ministry was grounded on the assurance that Christ would help him finish what he had started. If that is what is meant by "pride", we should certainly cultivate it and thank God for it.

Pride in the dictionary sense of conceited and overbearing behaviour, it brings our the worst in antisocial relationships. Such pride is not the answer to the human problem; it is the human problem...all of the major transgressions to inflict woe upon the human race---fear, greed, cruelty, lust, unbelief--- can be traced to run away pride.

As to whether or not our pride is sin, the answer ultimately rests with each of us. Christian knows the condition of his own heart. He measures it by the Word of God.

Proverbs 11:2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.