All i asked was what should i do about my friends that are jahova's witnesses! I said that i think that my beliefs are right. Everyone is so quick to saying that i am judging them! Why are people so quick to say that?
2007-04-12 15:38:19 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ignore them. Everyone judges all the time -it's called forming an opinion. In fact they were judging you by saying you were judging.
People like to point that out when they don't agree with your opinion (your judgment, if you will).
What Jesus was condemning when He said, "Don't judge!" was our forming a negative opinion about someone without all the facts. We cannot know motives, only God sees the heart.
We can and do judge behavior ( Jesus said,"By their fruits, you will know them.") The reason why we don't like it is that we like to be our own determiner of mores. Anybody who conflicts with our standards of judgment must be wrong!
It's the biggest reason why people out and out reject the notion of any God.
2007-04-12 15:51:45 · answer #1 · answered by biblechick45 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have read your question and it doesn't sound like judgement at all, rather concern.
I have a JW friend as well. In order to understand their beliefs I learned as much about them as I could. I also prepared myself to give them biblical answers. I can tell you, that everytime we've sat together, she eventually didn't know how to respond anymore. We often cried. Unfortunately she never came without her 'shadow' and I certainly didn't want to get her in trouble. Be kind in all you do and say, pray about it a lot and ask God to give you the right words. Sometimes we just need to live the example and not talk so much. Other times a good discussion is needed. Don't put them down, simply be prepared to show them scripture that tells you otherwise.
2007-04-12 22:45:23 · answer #2 · answered by VW 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know why people are so quick to judge but i think it is stupid to judge people without knowing them first. Just because you make a statement doesnt mean you are judging people. But when someone says that you are judging someone then what are they doing. Ill tell you they are judging you. It just means they are hypocrits
2007-04-12 22:46:59 · answer #3 · answered by Roxy J 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ did not found the Christian congregation to propound negativisms against any specific religion, but to preach the "good news" of the Kingdom. The bible's judgment message is not against just one particular religion, and it would be a mistake to pretend otherwise.
(Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations
(Luke 9:6) They went through the territory from village to village, declaring the good news
(Acts 5:42) Every day in the temple and from house to house they continued without letup teaching and declaring the good news about the Christ, Jesus.
In fact, at Matthew chapter 13, Jesus explained that all of self-described "Christianity" (true and false) would perform a service over the centuries in matters regarding bible translation, continuing respect for the bible, and in laying the groundwork for the ingathering prophesied to occur in "the conclusion of the system of things".
(Matthew 13:47-49) The kingdom of the heavens is like a dragnet let down into the sea and gathering up fish of every kind. 48 When it got full they hauled it up onto the beach and, sitting down, they collected the fine ones into vessels, but the unsuitable they threw away. 49 That is how it will be in the conclusion of the system of things: the angels will go out and separate the wicked from among the righteous
Note that it is not humans but angels who primarily perform the separating work. Of course, only Jesus and Jehovah make the final judgment regarding each individual.
(John 12:48-49) The word that I [Jesus] have spoken is what will judge [a person] in the last day; 49 because I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment
(John 8:16) if I do judge, my judgment is truthful, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me
(Matthew 12:36) They will render an account concerning it on Judgment Day
(John 5:22,27-30) [The Father] has committed all the judging to the Son... 27 And he has given him authority to do judging, because Son of man he is. 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out... I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
(Acts 17:30-31) God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. 31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man [Jesus] whom he has appointed
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20000622/article_03.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20041201/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm
2007-04-13 18:09:01 · answer #4 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your not wrong in what your doing. I went through the same thing when my friends were trying to tell me in what to belief. Follow the word and listen to people who interpret the word correctly. Up most make friends with someone who lives the word. The word I am referring to is the bible.
2007-04-12 22:48:42 · answer #5 · answered by Righteousness 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Judges are usually held in the highest order of respect why are so many afraid of it . Proper judgment is to your benefit.
2007-04-12 23:07:47 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not judging them by saying that to them. Actually God wants us to correct false teachings. Only God judges. Do not worry about that,people say all kind of stuff and that does not make it true or right.
2007-04-12 22:43:49 · answer #7 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's the new thing to do. Judge people by saying they're being judgmental. Didn't you get the memo?
Look, if YOU know you're right, and if YOU know that you're not "judging" anyone, then don't worry about it. Scrape 'em off.
2007-04-12 22:41:46 · answer #8 · answered by elizabeth_ashley44 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
we all have a belief system of some sort, religious, political, etc. It is ok to express our opinions, because that is why they are called "beliefs", if we are supposed to agree with everyone else, then we wouldn't have beliefs.
2007-04-12 22:41:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you are asking a question that basically entails how to get along with, and live peacefully around,. people who believe something different than you.
This is something that few people in the relgious section of yahoo answers know how to do.
Since they don't know the answer, how to get along with people who believe differently, they just insult you.
That way, they might make you angry enough that you won't notice that they never answered your question.
2007-04-12 22:42:48 · answer #10 · answered by julliana 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋