Christians-please explain this for me?

Question

In the verse in the N.T. about Judging---> it's says 'why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye but not at the one in your own eye.' And then it also says something about the plank in the eyes....something like that, but I hope you get my drift! What exactly does it mean?

thanks ya'll

P.S. How does the Orthodox church differ from any other christian sect?

peace to all

Answer 1

Basically, the verse means that you can't look at a tiny fault in others when you have glaring ones of your own. How can you in good faith complain about somebody stealing when you're cooking the books at your place of employment,,,, things like that.

As far as the Orthodox church, they were once basically Catholic, but rejected the authority of the Pope. That happened about 900 years or so ago, after which the Pope and the leader of the Orthodox church excomunicated each other's churches. That was reversed in the 1960's. The Orthodox still do not accept the Pope as leader though.

Answer 2

The verses in question are directed towards hypocrites - those who like to point out the lesser sins of others while not addressing their own larger ones.

The Orthodox Church is somewhat like the Roman Catholic Church in belief and practice, but with a very large disagreement concerning the primacy of the Pope. The Orthodox do not believe that the Pope has any spiritual authority over them. See the link.

Answer 3

It means that before you want to correct someone else you have to examine your own self because otherwise you are just a hypocrite. If you are living a life that honors God and have no known and/or unconfessed sin in your life then you can be a witness for Christ and tell other people where they are falling short. Not that I'm talking about sinless perfection mind you. But you don't sin on purpose and when you do sin you immediately confess and repent.

Matthew 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Answer 4

The part your speaking of says a log, but i have read the bible in latin so english translations don't do it justice. The passage is meant to warn about being a hypocrite. Why do you see the faults in others withour noticing those same faults in yourself. Ot was mostly meant for the pharases who where like the evangelicals today, hypocrites. Catholics and orthodox churches are somilar becaouse they have priest that are ordained. In a way they are the direct descendents of the 12 apostles. Protestanst don't have preist so their pastors can say whatever they want from their own limited and arbitrary knowledge.

Answer 5

Jesus tells people that have a board in their eye (AKA plank) not to try to remove the speck in someone else's eye.

Jesus, in almost comical fashion, is pointing out how a person might criticize someone for stealing when the criticizer is the biggest thief in the world!

Jesus is saying that we can only point out someone else's faults to them if we first acknowledge our own faults and speak to them gently and humbly, and with the genuine desire to help the other person.

Answer 6

It means you haven't solved your own problems so how can you solve other people's problems.

It means before you attempt to correct others, live in a glass house so we can see how you do everything, including sex. If you're ashamed or embarssed then maybe YOU are doing something wrong!

Orthodox churches are slower to change. They don't, for example, allow Women to be ministers or priests. They are behind the times as far as social behavior is concerned.

Answer 7

Excellent question!

I don't have an answer.....If I can't remove the log from my own eye, how can I possibly remove the splinter from another's eye?

Some people are comfortable with their belief and can lead others to places of clearer vision. I respect those people!

P.S. I don't know the diff between Orthodox and other.

Peace!

Answer 8

It does not have anything to do with sin. (It seems all preachers dwell on sin. Why? They want to make you feel guilty. If you feel guilty you will need their forgiveness, they will say God's fogiveness but you dont pay tithes to God, you pay tithes to selfish church leaders. Proof: During the next sermon, keep track about how much the preacher talks about himself. Yet the Bible says that when the Holy spirit is present, he will not talk about himself.

Now to your question: It relates to your eyes and this chat group:

If you are a Christian, get that big piece of wood out of your eyes, before you tell the athiests to get that little splinter out of their eyes. And Visa Versa.

The eyes are an analogy of our philosophies of religion, and our philosophies of our creation. The splinter and the big piece of wood (plank/beam) is an analogy of flaws in our logic.

excerpt from my book:


Succinctly, the scientific evolutionists base their discoveries on measurement. If it can't be measured, weighed, time dated, or compared with a known entity or recognized facto; it is not considered evidence.

"I believe it because I have measured it." Each of their discoveries is announced to us in sequential logic. This happened and resulted in this, which caused this to happen and obviously was the reason for our existence.

Creationists, per se, base their discoveries on feelings, emotions, human perspectives, and ultimately, faith. If it can't be felt in our hearts, it may be evidence, but it has no (human) value. "I believe it because I have felt it in my heart." Their discoveries are, also, announced to us in sequential logic.

Each camp attempts to gather support by discounting their adversary's theory of our origin. They do this by misrepresenting each other's beliefs.

Caution: Beware of what a fanatical Evolutionist concludes about the Creationist's theory. Likewise, beware of what a fanatical Creationist says about the theory of evolution. Forget that, suffice it to say, "Beware of fanatics".


Maybe, just maybe, the Creationist and the Evolutionist are both not only accurate in their discoveries, but also in their theories slash conclusions. They simply have ill defined time lines. The explanation will be forthcoming.

But, first, each camp must make a confession of ignorance in their theories.

The theory of evolution, strictly applied, cannot explain human emotions such as sympathy, empathy, happiness, heroism, true love, broken hearts, suicides, self sacrifice, faith, charity, worship of an invisible supreme being, forgiveness, and the Holy Spirit. Yet, they exist and cannot be explained within scientific parameters.

Neither survivalism nor "cause and effect" can explain these phenomenons or predict when they will affect human responses.

Creationism, strictly applied, cannot answer this question; "If God created us, who created God?" If some fruitcake from the Mormon Church or the Jehovah Witnesses dig up an old manuscript in their vegetable garden and announce to the world, "George created God", then we will need to ask, "Who created George?" - on ad nausea

To reply, "We are not supposed to know" would be more meaningless dribble. That reply may be denominational, but it is not biblical. "We are not supposed to know " can be found no place in the Bible.

Answer 9

People who have big important bad behaviors in their lives should not be picking at little things that others are doing wrong. Instead work on correcting your own big bad behaviors and then you can work in a loving way on helping others fix their small problematic behaviors.

Answer 10

All its saying before you judge someone about their actions you need to look at your own and get them in check because your actions may be worse than the other persons