Should Jesus be humble?

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Just thought about this, maybe it doesn’t hold much water. Should God be humble? If you think about it humility is the opposite of pride. Pride is about thinking we are so unbelievable and better than everyone else and that we can’t make mistakes. We feel invincible. Etc. So we should be humble.

But God is truly amazing, invincible, is the best thing in the universe, etc. so does it make sense for God to be humble?
 
phil8888 said:
Just thought about this, maybe it doesn’t hold much water. Should God be humble? If you think about it humility is the opposite of pride. Pride is about thinking we are so unbelievable and better than everyone else and that we can’t make mistakes. We feel invincible. Etc. So we should be humble.

But God is truly amazing, invincible, is the best thing in the universe, etc. so does it make sense for God to be humble?
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He humbled Himself by taking on the nature of man. As a complete innocent He allowed Himself to suffer and die as criminal.

How could He have been more humble?
 
davidv said:
He humbled Himself by taking on the nature of man. As a complete innocent He allowed Himself to suffer and die as criminal.

How could He have been more humble?
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Very true. He was (and is) very humble. Thanks for the (name removed by moderator)ut.
 
phil8888 said:
I hope people realize I wasn’t questioning it or saying he shouldn’t be humble, I’m just looking for an explanation as to why.
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I hope my response didn’t make it seem like I made that assumption. I had not.
 
yes, he should be. This is so, because frankly, Jesus is nice. Its that simple, if your not humble you are usually egotistical and have way to much desire for power. Jesus is not the controlling gods of old, who smite, or one that would command hands to be chopped of for stealing. hes not a barbarian, he a loving, peaceful father/god, and is humble in doing so.
 
phil8888 said:
Just thought about this, maybe it doesn’t hold much water. Should God be humble? If you think about it humility is the opposite of pride. Pride is about thinking we are so unbelievable and better than everyone else and that we can’t make mistakes. We feel invincible. Etc. So we should be humble.

But God is truly amazing, invincible, is the best thing in the universe, etc. so does it make sense for God to be humble?
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Your question is two part… or maybe three.

Jesus took on our form (of the earth… from dust you came, to dust you will go)… and as such He became of humble nature. Yes, He was the Son also, and here too He was humble and obedient to the Father. It is in the knowing what and who one is (and being just that) that one is humble. Not over-inflated nor under-inflated.

This leads to the simple fact that one should ‘know thyself’ so they can then be simply that. Knowing the ‘what’ one is; knowing the ‘who’ one is; knowing the ‘why’ one is; and following that knowledge.

Jesus knew these things and did them all the way to the end… or shall I say the beginning. God too knows Who He is. He is Merciful… but He is also Just. He would like our love, but will not force it, since that would not be love. God being the All that He is, has what I call ‘balance’… and shows His humility by being that. It is for us too to find that balance of what and who we are… thereby being humble.

Humility leads to Faith leads to Love… and we have then found God.
 
This is actually a very profound question, and goes to the heart of God himself!

Jesus was humble, as the poster above said because, as man he submitted himself completely to the Father in perfect humility.

But God’s humility goes infinitely farther! That is why we say God is HOLY. His holiness is so profound, and so abundant, that he does in fact ABASE himself and EMPTY himself by the Incarnation to save us from our sins and teach us how to love Him.

For us humility is being truthful. Accounting ourselves as nothing and worse than nothing, in God’s presence is only honest, nothing more.

For God humility is an essential attribute of His Holiness, and one that we must share in to be accepted as His children.

This is why God’s perfections, holiness and love for us, so much require our adoration and love. It is a very deep and profound mystery, worth meditating on without end! 🙂
 
AmbroseSJ said:
This is actually a very profound question, and goes to the heart of God himself!

Jesus was humble, as the poster above said because, as man he submitted himself completely to the Father in perfect humility.

But God’s humility goes infinitely farther! That is why we say God is HOLY. His holiness is so profound, and so abundant, that he does in fact ABASE himself and EMPTY himself by the Incarnation to save us from our sins and teach us how to love Him.

For us humility is being truthful. Accounting ourselves as nothing and worse than nothing, in God’s presence is only honest, nothing more.

For God humility is an essential attribute of His Holiness, and one that we must share in to be accepted as His children.

This is why God’s perfections, holiness and love for us, so much require our adoration and love. It is a very deep and profound mystery, worth meditating on without end! 🙂
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Wow, I love your explanation!
 
phil8888 said:
Just thought about this, maybe it doesn’t hold much water. Should God be humble? If you think about it humility is the opposite of pride. Pride is about thinking we are so unbelievable and better than everyone else and that we can’t make mistakes. We feel invincible. Etc. So we should be humble.

But God is truly amazing, invincible, is the best thing in the universe, etc. so does it make sense for God to be humble?
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Matthew 11:29 (Jesus said)
“Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls”
 
There is a lot to this question.

The word has its roots I believe in the latin for earth- humility is when our self perception equates to the reality of our nature as mortal, dependent and corruptible.

For Almighty and Blessed God, He in Himself is not dust and ashes He is Glorious, Eternal and Everlasting. It would be false for Him to see Himself dust and ashes. That surely would not be humility at all… It would be dishonest.

We would not refer to the Eternal Father as being Humble would we?

Its amazingly profound that in spite of this, Our Holy Incarnate God refers to His Sacred Heart as meek and humble. The Sacred Heart is the symbol of the Holy Humanity of Christ, in His Humanity God the Son could view Himself honestly as being dust and ashes.

So, in answer to the question, should Jesus be humble- yes, in that it flows from Himself as being the model of all human virtues.

A deeper question is why the Eternal Word should choose to be brought lower that His Most Blessed Nature, we are talking about something beyond humility here! It is depreciation , self abasement. The question comes to why would God choose to become Incarnate when it is a quality that seems so opposed to His own humility (His being honest to Himself). This is why we cannot say- God had to become man, He did not, indeed it does not befit His own Glory. At this point we enter the realm of mystery and we realise that love is a motivation that somehow conquers God’s own self perception and brings Him infinity lower than what humility is to Him.
 
God is the most humble of all. We are to model ourselves after him and learn to be humble
 
coleraine said:
yes, he should be. This is so, because frankly, Jesus is nice…Jesus is not the controlling gods of old, who smite, or one that would command hands to be chopped of for stealing. hes not a barbarian, he a loving, peaceful father/god, and is humble in doing so.
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Um, Jesus is not “nice,” if I am interpreting the meaning of the way in which you are using that word. “Nice” guys don’t get crucified; “nice” guys don’t come into town and ruin everyone’s fun by overturning their merchant tables; “nice” guys don’t call the ruling religio-politicians broods of vipers. Nice guys are guys that just chill out and let things be. Nice guys never stand up for anything but rather take the watercourse way through life. Nice guys engender feelings of mild approval in people; Jesus did not engender feelings of mild approval. People either worshiped him or despised him. There was/is no middle ground.

Also, Jesus does not smite? True, not now, but he has already come as the humble, suffering Servant. When he returns, he will come as the King of the Universe, in his glory, and, frankly, it will be “no more Mr. Nice Guy.” 🙂
 
Humility is honesty, not self-deprecation.
Humility in humans is to be honest about all that is genuinely good in themselves and all that honestly isn’t good in themselves. God is not proud if He recognises the truth about Himself. Pride is in having unreal and excessive self-appreciation. God can only appreciated Himself as absolutely and completely good and powerful. This is not pride but honesty, which is actually humility because it is truth.
 
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