When we are told in the bible 'judge not', how far do we go?

Question

Not a faceatious question as it may sound, i am a christian, but gays are always telling me not to judge when all i am doing is quoting the bible some of Them Read...If the Bible says not to judge... how far do we take it, how literall do we get, is judging condemning, personal opinions, observations or name calling and accusations.

Answer 1

The bible tells us over and over not to Judge so it must be very important.

The story of the garden of Eden is about judgment although it is seldom interpreted this way.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil is a metaphor for judgment. Knowledge of good and evil is a definition of judgment.

The story is telling us that learning to judge banished us from the perfection that we once were. If you actually read it from this perspective you will see what I am saying.

Jesus is even said to have made the comment judge not lest ye be judged. Notice that he made no exception to this rule. There was no except for, in his observation about judgment.

He saw clearly that it always separated us from our brothers who are all parts of God.
Jesus did not condemn those who nailed him to the cross. Instead he ask the father to forgive their ignorance.

It think if we see our selves as true followers of Jesus, that is exactly how far he expects us to go in relinquishing the harmful idea of judgment.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 2

It is in the attitude. If you are just sharing what your God said that is not judging but when You decided that they are condemned for their life style, that is judging. Yes God has made it very clear how he feels about homosexuality and we cannot deny or ignore that but he also said to love one another. If you are sharing in a loving way and not casting a sentence on them they maybe accusing you of something you are not doing. Remember that we all started as sinners needing love and forgiveness and have been given the responsibility to spread that love to others. I would suggest a more conscious effort to express love and acceptance of the person but make no apologies for what God says about the behavior and if there is a miscommunication I would apologize that it came across as a judgment from me and make it clear that I am only telling them what is in scripture but would never presume to play God by casting judgments on others
This doesn't sound faceatious at all to me, rather a struggel that every believer deals with. Satan doesn't like it when we tell the truth so he will bend God's words to shut us up saying whatever he has to

Answer 3

It is okay to state that something is a sin, however you must be sure not to accuse the person of sinning. If you say to a homosexual, "It is written in the bible that Homosexual behavior is an abomination against God." Then you are stating the sin. But if you say, "being Gay is a sin and you're going to burn in hell." Then you get into judgement. It is not for us to say where the sinner will go because we do not know if or when that person might make peace with God about the sins. And we sin enough on out own to really just need to leave everyone to their own business while we tend to ours.Hope that helps.

Answer 4

The bible is a Misogynists almanac. Many things were left out by the translators, and much of the old fashioned thinking is frankly insulting to women, insultingly racist, and homophobic. I do not think any of it can be taken literally.

As for judging... take out the beam from your own eye before demanding the splinter comes from mine... means look to yourself and your own faults. Similarly, Jesus exorted the crowd, Let ye without sin throw the first stone" when they were about to kill an adulteress. Needless to say, they all slunk away, and the women went free.
What goes around comes around, and thats in every religeon ever - Karma to Nirvana to Paradise to whatever will be the bliss of knowing you did what you could for as many people who came into your realm - stay happy!!

Answer 5

If you see me shoplifting and say, "hey, you're a thief", then that's not judging. It's just being accurate. There's no restriction in judging people for what crimes they've committed, or judging who we wish to have as friends, for example.

It means that we don't impute motives, we don't make adverse comments about someones character, we don't say "You can't be a Christian because you've just stolen something." This is the kind of moral judgement God is talking about. .

Only God can judge these things because only God can read our minds, know what is in our hearts, and have witnessed all the bad things that we have experienced in our lives. And we are therefore not to muscle-in on God's territory, God says that (this kind of) judgement is his and his alone.

And finally, the prohibition on judgement is only for within the Christian community.

Answer 6

You dont judge it is very simple. Your job as a believer is not in pointing out the faults in others but avoiding them yourselves.

as far as homosexuals , it is very possible that the biblical writers themselves were misguided as people even today dont know much about them. St paul and the others were just as prone to make mistakes just as any other religious person is and it foolish just because they lived 2000 years ago to hold their word as absolute truth and to take it literaly

Or imagine yourself as a person who doesnt know much about the bible, and a homosexual shows you a passage from the bible saying all heterosexuals will go to hell. What will you do in such a hypothetitical situation.

Answer 7

Hi, Icecreamdreams 2000
You are not judging them when you read the bible to them suga!
The word of God convicts the heart of the ones that don't want to face God on earth.

But what you are doing is o.k.

In the word says man love darkness so he trades the knowledge of light for the hope of darkness

Keep up the Good work and don't look for your reward on earth
because it is in Heaven.

Do not let the look on the face of man.
Change the path in your heart honey.

Peace!!!!

Answer 8

Judging regards one and only one thing - reason. The Bible says do not judge for your reason is not all-knowing as God's one, for you cannot know God's will! Thus the bible say your reason is impotent, your opinion is not worthy and you should not think so much but love! For it is God's business (forgive me for this word) who is right and who is wrong. Trying to judge for yourself you are wrong in any case. If you say you are christian, you are wrong not to love your nrighbour but condemning him. Supposing you say you are not christian you are wrong again for no other reason do you have against gay people but your belief. And your belief is wrong! Vanity and arrogance are sins from the Bible. Love monong men is not. And do not quote me John and Paul, for they are as ignorant for God's will as you poor.

Answer 9

here we go the good christian values again!!!! its JUDGE NOT what part of that is hard to under stand its not JUDGE NOT APART FROM god has said he is the judge the only person we are fit to judge is our self. presuming to judge another person mean you think your better than them thats pride and isnt that a sin

Answer 10

I believe that telling people they are wrong(as the bible clearly says that they are) but your motive is more important to God. Why do you tell what you say to these gays? In everyrhing we do, we should be glorifying God and that means that doing what you do especially dealing with people with love for them.
Remember in the Bible that Nathan confronted King David because of his sin? what about prophets telling wicked people to repent of their wrongdoings?
Telling people that they are wrong is not judging when you are doing it to correct them because you love them and do not want them to perish. Judging is, more like condemning them.