Why are christians so focused on appearances?? shouldnt you be the least judgemental?

Answer 1

I'M christen, and I find that christens actually judge the most. I'm profiled all of the time because I have a fomanchu. Conservative christens think I'm a bad person because i look nothing like them. and here i own my home, i own my car, my kids are healthy, we all hunt together, we grow and raise most of our own food. I work forty hours week and make a good living. but because i don't look like them, most peoples first impression of me is that im a bad person, lol. so how is that being nonjudgmental?

Answer 2

I actually don't care about appearances. I am not exactly what you would call a beautiful person by todays standards, but the people that love me, love me for me and I try to make at least one new friend every few days. And I usually do. I certianly do not care what other people look like. There are too many shallow people on earth anyway and I think that being shallow just keeps people from living a fullfilling life. They may reject someone that could be a good addition to their life simply because that person is fat or is not "beautiful" or does not have money. It happens all the time.

Answer 3

I'm not sure all Christians focus on how someone looks, but there are certainly many who do.

I once went to a Catholic mass where the priest put down anyone who wears shorts to church. I'm not sure wearing shorts is the best thing, but his tone was so angry and judgmental, and not very Christ-like.

What also doesn't make sense to me is when some Christians wear expensive, diamond laden crosses. Isn't Christianity about simplicity and love? About serving the poor? Or is it about having the coolest bling around your neck (in the shape of a cross)?

Answer 4

I am going to assume you were not talking about the superficial aspect of wardrobe and hair...

Judging one's salvation is what we are not to do. Only God can look through our stumblings (Sins) and know if we have a heart for Him or not. We can not look inside another's heart.

Take King David for example. He actually committed adultery and had his lover's husband sent forward in the battle field that he might be more easily killed in battle, which he was killed.

This is horrible and believe me God tells us that David payed the price for his actions. But through it all, through David's battle with his self serving desires God tells us that "DAVID WAS A MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART."

Now you and I would have judged David to be nothing but a sinner, a devil even. We would have sentenced him to death for his crimes believing that his final resting place would be hell forever more.

But not so, "David was a man after God's own heart." and David repented, though the eyes of the world might not have ever seen or known this.

Praise God that He is ALL KNOWING and can see beyond our sins and that He has enough love, grace and mercy to let us stumble, fall and fail horribly, only to help us get back up and try again.

~~~Now on to an all together different aspect of Christianity~~~

DISCERNING whether someone's professed Christian walk is bearing good fruit is an all together different story. This God tells us we should do all the time, that we don't ever be led astray by "Wolves in sheep's clothing."

Since David professed to be a man of God, it would have been all right for a fellow believer to DISCERN (Yes Judge) whether his life was consistent with the teachings of the very God he claims to follow. So long as the person's SALVATION was never being judged.

Answer 5

They aren't.

Look at al the questions here. Most judgemental ones like yours are nonchristians bashing at christians. It's called projecting, you hate your faults so you claim christians have them. When do you open the camps. Will the jews also be targeted again Adolph?

Answer 6

im a christian and i dont care about what i look like

i actually htink my whole church dosnt care

Answer 7

It is easier to stereotype than to think.