Not sure where you got that idea.

• Humility comes from Modern French humilité
• humilité comes from Old French: umelite "modesty, sweetness"
• umelite comes from latin: humilitatem (nominative humilitas) which means baseness
• And the root of that Latin word is: humus: "earth"

• Humiliation comes from pride. Without pride, you cannot be humbled. To be humbled is to be humiliated.
• We have a tendency to credit ourselves when we succeed. We attribute our physical beauty to our healthy diet and consistent exercise. We believe our work ethic created our financial success. We applaud our kindness for our many friendships. Jesus warns that God will humble those that exalt themselves.
• Matthew 23:12 "For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."

Pride

• Old English: prede
• prede comes from late old English: pryto
• late Old English prud, prute "excellent, splendid; arrogant, haughty, having or cherishing a high opinion of one's own merits; guilty of the sin of Pride.
• "The proud hate pride – in others," wrote Benjamin Franklin in his Poor Richard's Almanac.
• We see the pride of others with 20/20 vision, while being blind to its presence in ourselves.
• (Lk. 6:41-42; Mt. 7: 3-5) Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

• There is no need for pride in oneself, or to be proud of what you have done. All good comes from God. Not you.
• "Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change." (James 1:16–17)
• For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8–9)

• Some will accept others exalting them. This is also a form of pride and it not good.
• Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. (Matthew 6:1–2)

• Does Jesus himself the son of God not humble himself when he washes the feet of his disciples? And were we not then told to follow what Jesus has done?

• The only way to get around all of this, is basically to say the bible is worthless and you are athiest. Then I have no way to argue since you would then be someone's morals that are backed by nothing.

Caution, friend.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 16:18 ESV

https://bible.com/bible/59/pro.16.18.ESV

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

James 4:6 ESV

https://bible.com/bible/59/jas.4.6.ESV

The Bible warns against pride. It says pride precedes destruction, and it says God opposes the proud. Proverbs was written by King Solomon, who is regarded as the wisest man to ever live, and James was written by the brother of Jesus.

Enjoy what you have now, but you only have it through the grace of God who gave you the ability to earn what you have. Ultimately everything is his, and he can take it away from you at any time.

Humility, no thanks. Root word of humiliation. I'll take pride thanks. I am a proud patriot. Proud father. Proud small business owner. Earn pride by acting in ways one can be proud of.

Words are fun - those are good examples

BTW humility, the noun form of humble, is different from humiliation. Hum- is also the root of humble. Literally, like humus, "on the ground." Jesus was reportedly a "down-to-earth", "grounded", humble guy. And he was Jesus Christ, for His sake! Qeq :) It really says a lot about a person to be that humble while being literally superhuman.

Humble doesn't mean being a lowlife or slave, or having no pride in your cleanliness or your children; just not doing stuff like being boastful and self-centered, taking all the credit for what was really a team accomplishment, etc.

/wordnerd