The sin of pride is especially insidious and perhaps ineradicable, and an absolute barrier to salvation: because it is the ultimate complacency that "I am good enough as I am".
Salvation is resurrection, and resurrection is a remaking such that we become wholly good, wholly motivated by love...
This includes our recognition that we need remaking, that we need to reject and leave-behind that of us which is dissonant with the euphony of divine creation.
But if we are spiritually-proud, we see no reason why we need to be remade to be fitted for Heaven.
The proud Man wants, instead, that Heaven be fitted around himself as-is.
Such pride seems very common and normal, and is found among the despised, weak, poor and sick - as also (more obviously) among the strong, arrogant and famous.
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Note: Of course, pride is not the only blockage to salvation. Self hatred is another, because it is our-self who is resurrected. If we hate our self, we will not desire to be resurrected.
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