Zeb, you seem to be totally lacking in the ability to see yourself as others perceive you; otherwise you would realize how arrogant, smug, and insensitive you come across at some times, and how ridiculous you come across at other times.

In fact, C. S. Lewis, in his introduction to Screwtape Letters (which I am sure is one of your favorite books, you being the kind of Christian you are), talks about humor as involving a sense of proportion and the ability to see yourself from the outside. I think humility would also involve these attributes. You, in common with the devils (at least according to C. S. Lewis), seem to be completely lacking in these attributes.

I think it is ridiculous for you to think that I am arrogant for being firm in my belief that there are many spiritual paths.

By your unquestioningly accepting that Jesus is the only way for any person just because this one particular book, The BIBLE, says so, and the Bible is (supposedly) God's absolute truth which must not be questioned, you are no different from the good Germans in the 1930's who went along with Hitler, and accepted that the Germans were the master race, and other races were inferior, because Hitler said so.

In comparing you to the "good Germans", please keep in mind that it is with the benefit of hindsight and of history that nobody now denies how evil Hitler was. In the 1930's many people who went along with Hitler were outwardly "good" people, some of them "good" Christians. And here in America, a large portion of shrub's "base" has consisted of, and still consists of, YOUR TYPE of Christians, Zeb, i.e. fundamentalist Christians who unquestioningly and uncritically accept that this one particular book, the Bible, is God's absolute truth.

And even though you probably are not guilty of anti-Semitism, or other specific crimes and sins that the Nazis were guilty of, the psychology of unquestioning absolute adherence to any authority is the same, whether that authority be the Bible, Hitler, the Koran, the Pope, or anything or anybody else.

So you consider yourself "humble" because you unquestioningly accept the authority of the Bible, and consider me to be "arrogant" because I do not accept such authority, and reject the teaching that Jesus is "the only way" to God, and instead believe that there are many different spiritual paths, some being right for some, and others being right for others.

You might just as well consider a "good German" to be humble because he/she unquestioningly accepts the authority of Hitler, and firmly believes that Germans are the master race, and other races are inferior. And you would by the same logic then consider someone who firmly holds to the conviction, expressed in our Declaration of Independence, that all men (and women, too) are created equal, as being arrogant.

And yes, I am firm in my beliefs that there are many spiritual paths, some of which might be right for some, and some right for others. In particular, I absolutely and totally reject, with all my being, any obligation to concern myself with whether others are "saved" or "unsaved", and to tell others that they need to "accept Christ", motivated by the belief that Jesus is "the way and the truth", and "nobody comes to the father but through him". I do not see how one can get any joy or enjoyment out of life if one really believes that and has to have in the back of one's mind that others are either "saved" or "unsaved". If this makes me "arrogant", then so be it. However if you really think that this makes me arrogant, then you are absolutely crazy.