Bible Question: John 7:24 says "judge not" but "judge"? Is the allegory law not, but grace?

Question

John 7:24 says "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgement", perhaps as if saying there's two sorts of judgment: unrighteous and righteous.

We judge, make decisions, have opinions, daily. We judge where to drive, how fast. We judge with whom to do business, socialize, avoid. Question is, are we doing it legalistically or graciously; And does it matter? Perhaps it does.

Mt 7:1,2 says judge not lest ye be judged, for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged. Lk 6:37 adds if ye condemn, or not, ye shall be condemned, or not; and if ye forgive, or not, ye shall be forgiven, or not. Conditional forgiveness infers law, which is both a ministration of condemnation and death. So lawing others could result in lawing yourself with "law worketh wrath", even the "death" sting of law imputed sin. For law imputed sin makes sinners all, none righteous, no, not one. God is one, and we all are one. So "we thus judge if one died for all then were all dead", by law.

Answer 1

The context and word for judgement that is used would mean `condemn' in the english. We are not to condemn because we are improper judges for such a role. That is the role of a holy and just God. However, throughout scripture we are instructed to `judge' or `discern' the actions and attitudes of others. You can obviously notice the distinction between condemning and discerning.

Answer 2

First off, it's not an allegory, but a command.

Basically the passage says that one will bear the consequences of one's actions. If you judge, you will be judged. If you condemn, you will be condemned. That is, you will reap what ye sow. If you adjudge a thief to be a thief, than you have judged correctly and justly, so your own judgement will be correct and just. If you adjudge an innocent person to be guilty/a sinner, you have judged incorrectly and unjustly and your own judgement will reflect that.

It's not saying to not judge, but to be sure of your judgements. Side note: judging whether to turn left or right at an intersection hardly fits the context. John is talking about how we deal with other people.

As for law, Man's or God's, it makes no distinction.

Answer 3

it rather is all conditioning. that's how brainwashing works. Scientology is amazingly good at it, besides. in certainty, you get somebody to have faith some thing that's in basic terms slightly astounding. then you definately enable them to have faith that little some thing for a whilst, till it cements itself interior the ideas. Then, utilising that astounding factor as a base, you may now tell them some thing else that's in basic terms a sprint extra astounding. and you may do it, by using fact now they're in a distinctive point of skepticism. This 2nd astounding factor could be poppycock to them initially. yet now they're on the 1st step, rather than the floor. You proceed with this technique, coaxing them to take further and further steps into insanity, each and every development on the final. and that they manage the bible this type. each and every time they understand "Oh, that's for sure not a genuine tale!" then they might desire to make it a sprint extra "achieveable". They do this with the aid of calling it allegory. however the venture continues to be carried out. despite the fact that it rather is called allegory, you're nonetheless confident that this fictional tale holds a reality in it. So despite the fact that it rather is fiction, you're on the subsequent step. as an occasion, all of us know Adam and Eve is, at superb, allegory. And maximum particularly sensible Christians admit this. yet Christians nonetheless settle for this fictional tale as being the rationalization why they're sinners, and could pass to hell in the event that they don't repent. they don't make the relationship that the story isn't actual. it rather is not literal. It did not take place. as a result, it rather is going to not be able for use as a rationalization for something.

Answer 4

I think in John 7:24 because of the context of being in the synagogue and the reference to his having done a circumcision on the sabbath He is intending that you should judge by the spirit of the law, and the intent. That the actual letter of the law and the surface appearances of events are secondary to justice.

Answer 5

In order to tell the whole meaning of a verse you have to read it in context. I read starting at John 7:1 and continued to the verse in question. Now the Jews were mad at Jesus for healing an invalid someone on the Sabbath. They kept on telling the man "It is the Sabbath." (The day God set aside for rest.) "You have no right to pick up your bed and walk." The man later told them that afterJesus had heald him He commanded him to pick up his bed and walk. For this the Jews tormented Jesus and wanted to kil him because he did this on the Sabbath. This happened in Chapter 5. In Chapter 7 it says the Jews were astonished at what Jesus knew. They wondered how he knew so much about the Scriptures without studying them. Jesus said "My teaching is not of my own but His Who sent me." He went on to say that a man can tell for himself whether a teaching is from God or not. "He who speaks on his own authority is just trying to make himself look good. But He Who seeks the glory and is eager for the honor of Him who sent Him, He is true and there is no unrighteousness or falsehood or deception in Him."

Jesus asked the people around him "Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law. So if that is so why do you want to kill ME for not keeping it?"

Everyone was like "Your crazy man! You got a demon in you or something. Who wants to kill you?"

7:21 Jesus answered them "I did one work." (healing that man from earlier) "And you all are astounded."

7:22 "Now Moses established circumcision among you-though it did not originate with Moses but with the previous patriarchs-and you circumcise a person [even] on the Sabbath day."

7:23 "If, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, a person undergoes circumvision on the Sabbath day, have you any cause to be angry with (indignat with, bitter against) Me for making a man's whole body well on the Sabbath?"

7:24 "Be honest in your judgement and do not decide at a glace (superficially and by appearances); but judge fairly and righteously."

(Basically the old saying "Don't judge a book by it's cover." You can't just look at one aspect of something and make an assumption of it or a decision on it. What do judges do? They don't make a ruling right away based on the evidence or a report he gets. That's why we have trials, to dig deeper. The judge looks at the facts and the testimony and studies it objectively to make a fair, judicious, righteous judgment.)

And "Judge not least you be judged" is basically telling you to judge fairly and righteously, looking at more then what meets the eye, because isn't that the way you want to be judged?

Answer 6

We may judge what is sin (as stated in the Bible) and point it out to people (Christians and non believers) and tell those who do not know Jesus as their savior about their need for Him. We need to listen when people point out things in our own lives.

But we are not to judge Christians weather they are going to Heaven or not because of sin we see in their lives. If they are calling on Jesus to forgive them and change them, then it is up to Jesus to do it and the person if free of guilt (only God knows our hearts and He will judge us accordingly).

Answer 7

judge with love , compassion, and hatred towards the crime/action and not the person.