Self Idol

[Fool]

Can self be an idol that limits understanding?

 

[atanu]

Mental inference of what self is is limiting and pain giving and killing.

 

[David T]

Can self be an idol that limits understanding?

Yep Ivorytowertis. What would a world be like where everyone is THE PhD expert in their own field someday? Obviously that won't happen we would go extinct long before that out of stupidity but it's an interesting thought experiment.

 

[allfoak]

Can self be an idol that limits understanding?

I would say that it is inevitable for most.
Know thyself or become imprisoned by it.

New American Standard Bible
Proverbs 9
1Wisdom has built her house,
She has hewn out her seven pillars;
2She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine;
She has also set her table;

3She has sent out her maidens, she calls
From the tops of the heights of the city:

4“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!”
To him who lacks understanding she says,

5“Come, eat of my food
And drink of the wine I have mixed.

6“Forsake your folly and live,
And proceed in the way of understanding.”

7He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself,
And he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself.

8Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you,
Reprove a wise man and he will love you.

9Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser,
Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.

10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

11For by me your days will be multiplied,
And years of life will be added to you.

12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,
And if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

13The woman of folly is boisterous,
She is naive and knows nothing.

14She sits at the doorway of her house,
On a seat by the high places of the city,

15Calling to those who pass by,
Who are making their paths straight:

16“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,”
And to him who lacks understanding she says,

17“Stolen water is sweet;
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

18But he does not know that the dead are there,
That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.