What is the difference in being self righteous and having a Godly sense of spiritual self confidence?
This question and its answer can show a profound condition in Christian culture that can attract someone to God or drive them away from him. Self righteousness is an attitude we ought to seriously examine and study. The best way to begin this study is to examine the Pharisee. Christ announced seven woes on self righteous conduct in matt.23:13-27, and actually taught that this type of approach even if extended in worship of him is vain, matt.15:7-9. This is serious condemnation of conduct. What then is a Pharisee? It is most simply explained as being self righteous in thinking and behavior. It is quite necessary to study the difference between the mind of the Christian and the mind of the Pharisee. We need to see how any mixture of the two can prove to be deadly. Remember that since the time when the Pharisee first appeared until now their nature has not changed. The latter-day Pharisee is the same as the modern-day Pharisee, these are spiritual people we are discussing here, also bear
