Chistians, are people judged on their thoughts aswell as their actions?

Question

i mean what if a christian cried when he thought of the homeless, people with painful diseases, and those living in squaler but nether did nothing about it except staying at home everyday just praying?

Answer 1

Biblically a person is judged upon their thoughts as well as their actions. It's arguable whether or not praying is doing nothing. It's true that if that's all your doing, you're in they wrong. However the analogy you gave isn't the best, because what they are doing wrong is an action, the lack of one. They will be judged by their inactivity.

Answer 2

Christan's strive for everything to be closer to God. Yes, we should love God above all and love each other they way we want to be loved.

In striving to be the best we can be, we believe we are judge by our actions, lack of actions, and thoughts.

Each Christan has their own mission, Holy Orders. Not all people are created by God for the purpose of feeding the poor. However, when we encounter a situation where we can help, then we are judged by what we did or did not do. What is judgment exactly? This goes to God. He has his plan, that he reveals in his own time.

God bless.

Answer 3

Jesus said we would always have the poor.
Matthew 26:11, Mark 14:7, John 12:8

Judgment on man's thoughts was passed, before, in Genesis 6:5 and it will again.

Answer 4

God is the searcher of human hearts. Therefore, yes, God does judge people's thoughts and feelings.

As to your other question, though, it isn't related. One can have pity and not be called to act. Others may be called to act. No one person has to do all things--and no one person CAN do all things. God has different purposes for each of us.

A person seeking God's will and carrying it out is doing what he or she is intended to do by God.

Usually God's purpose can be "boiled down" to something very simple: With anything that comes in front of you, do what is right to do.

Some people's purposes are to "stay home every day praying." Trappist monks, for example, spend an extraordinary amount of time in prayer. Their calling is monastic.

Others are called to be missionaries. Others are called to feed the hungry. Others are called to work in politics.

This is what is known as The Body of Christ on Earth.

Can your arm be expected to digest your food? Can your heart be expected to solve mathematical equations.

One of the whole "points" of a church is to gather people together so that they may act as one by performing different tasks that are all subject to God's will.

Answer 5

We can only learn from the Scripture here. We need to keep our reason from getting the best of us. It helps us little on this issue.

St. John (1 John 3:15) said: "Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him." Hatred is a thought that is a sin. We sin with our thoughts.

(Matthew 5:27-28) Jesus said: "...But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." We can change the gender of each pronoun from masculine to feminine and talk about a woman sinning with a man in her mind and a man with a man and a woman with a woman, all are accurate here. Our thoughts can be sins.

Now about temptations, James 1:14-15: "Each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death." We have a slippery slope here. First there is temptation. Then our evil desire drags us away with the temptation and entices us with it. Then the desire conceives the sin. Then follows the punishment for the sin. An example:

You walk into a little shop. The bell rings at the door as you walk in. But no one appears from the back room. The thought goes through your mind that you could rob this place blind. You call out, "Is anyone here?" You don't like the tempting thought. You reject the tempting thought. You touch nothing and take nothing. Maybe you even leave the store because you don't like to be alone with the temptation. You have been tempted. But you have not sinned. You have said, "No!" to the temptation.

But, now the sin. We begin anew with the same scenario.

The store is empty. The tempting thought goes through your mind. You see something you like. You want the thing without paying for it. You want to take it and steal it. Before you can grab it and leave, someone comes out from the back of the shop. So you ask how much the thing costs that you desired to take without paying for it. You may or may not purchase it. The shopkeeper or store clerk stopped you from sinning in action, but did not stop you from sinning in thought. You had decided that you would take the thing without paying for it. You sinned with your thoughts.

I have been trying to describe 1 Timothy 6:9-10: "People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."

We can follow the same progression with internet pornography, video, or printed, or imagined pornography. We can follow the same progression with hatred and grudges and refusal to forgive. See Proverbs 1:10; 6:25; 12:26; 23:31; and 30:8-9 here.

Whenever the desire leads to enticement, we have sinned with our thoughts.

We have the warning from Jesus (Matthew 26:41): "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak." Note also, 1 Corinthians 10:12-13. Temptations can be very strong. Thank God that he "provide(s) a way out".

Thank God, that there is forgiveness for all sin with Jesus (Romans 8:1): "There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus".

God is stronger than all temptation. We look to him when we are tempted for strength to resist. There is nothing in all creation that (Romans 8:39) "will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

We look to Jesus for forgiveness (1 John 1:7): "The blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin."

God's blessings if you are struggling against temptation. Sometimes talking with your pastor or another Christian about it very privately can be helpful.

Answer 6

thoughts of lust are as bad as comitting the sin so maybe thoughts of the poor can be = to helping Prayer is always an important tool but giving time or money is as important

Answer 7

According to the christians ,the people are judged according to their
spirituality

Answer 8

Yup, these religions are set up so that there are NO loopholes. Consider the fun successfully sucked out!

Answer 9

Thoughts do matter, but that is a backward way of looking at it. i know you can sin through though (he who looks with lust has commited adultry, he who hates has commited murder) however. that is a good question. I would have to say it would matter to a degree, but you dont get into heaven by acts (thinking or physically acting) but by faith.

Answer 10

Yep