How to recognize self righteous people. - When seeing someone or hearing of someone overtaken in a fault they respond by saying" If that were me I would never do somehing like that". Even though they are clueless regarding how they would respond in the same situation. Or when giving advice they generally start off by saying"What people do not understand is...." As if they have cornered the market on wisdom.
Gal 6:1 BRETHREN, IF any person is overtaken in misconduct or sin of any sort, you who are spiritual [who are responsive to and controlled by the Spirit] should set him right and restore and reinstate him, without any sense of superiority and with all gentleness, keeping an attentive eye on yourself, lest you should be tempted also.
Rom 12:3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
The only way that we can properly and accurately appraise any situation is by the spirit. Absent the Holy Spirit you have nothing left but the carnal mind, the carnal (or natural) mind is woefully inadequate to make judgments about the activities of men. This is one of the many many reasons Christians must be filled with the Holy Spirit of GOD.
1 Cor 2:14 But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated.
Generally those who are self righteous will submit to religious dogma because they are incapable of distinguishing between religious dogma and the truths contained in the Holy Bible. In fact most have difficulty even reading their Bible and often leave their Bible at home when attending church on Sunday. Without the infilling of the Holy Spirit we become ripe to be lead captive by the latest doctrinal fade.
