What is the difference between actual humility and the attribute many fundamentalists Christians call humility

Answer 1

Actual humility is a funny thing. Others may notice it, and commend you for it, but once you realize you have it, you don't.

Answer 2

A really humble person admits to flaws out of a real recognition that there are better people out there and that the person has a real need for improvement. Real humility is the opposite of saying that one is better than others.

Fundamentalist humility differs because it's really false humility- it's still a claim to superiority. Fundamentalist humility says "I am flawed, but so are you, I'm no worse than anyone else, we are all equally guilty in the eyes of God." But integral to this "humility" is the message that the Fundamentalist is better for knowing the One True Faith and the Fundamentalist is going to Heaven while anyone who disagrees is damned by God to Hell. God, who is all knowing, likes the fundamentalist better than all those who disagree with the fundamentalist. That's hardly humble.

Answer 3

Actual humility is an extension of compassion, the willingness to act on the knowledge that we are no more important than our fellow man. Religious humility involves abasement to a god and requires no compassion.

Answer 4

Actual humility is realizing how insignificant you really are.

Fundamentalist humility is thinking that your are the most significant thing in the universe, subservient to only one being... "god".

Answer 5

A truely humble person,honors others above themselves. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:3-5).

Answer 6

True humility is knowing that it is God who works through you not yourself.

Answer 7

With real humility you don't tell people you have it like the fundies.