The reason narcissists, those with insolent pride, cannot grow and change, is because in order to do that, they would have to admit their own frailties.
Pride prevents people from seeing themselves in truth, therefore they are continually having to prove themselves through mocking and demeaning others.
Pride prevents improvement, in fact it furthers and enhances the frailties. As a prideful person gets older his pride become solidified and worsens, as though God has fully turned them over to their own reality.
Matthew 13:12-14 "…12 Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’ 14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.…"
It's a terrible thing to go ones entire life fighting against truth, growth and spiritual betterment, only to find oneself no longer able to think reasonably or righteously.
Think about it! "What will my my state when I am too old to pretend anymore?"
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