Is self-esteem sinful or pride?

[wcknight]

Folks with very low or no self esteem have very difficult psychological problems. Folks with too much self esteem become arrogant and obnoxious.

There is a happy medium, you need enough self esteem to have confidence in your God-given abilities, and you need enough to have self respect. You just need to remember that all your abilities come from God, and without Him you are nothing. IF you can always remember where your gifts come from, then I think you will have no problems with getting too much into yourself.

 

[Robert_Sock]

You just need to remember that all your abilities come from God, and without Him you are nothing. IF you can always remember where your gifts come from, then I think you will have no problems with getting too much into yourself.

But this is possible without any self-esteem. Also, there is such a thing as confidence in God instead of self-confidence. Self-confidence is really opposed to the notion that our ability comes from God: It unjustly assumes it is our self that produced the ability.