If you think you can judge others, you are wrong. When you judge them, you are realy judging yourself guilty, because you do the same things they do.
2007-04-13 02:10:47 · 18 answers · asked by Robert S 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-04-13 02:12:07 · update #1
Bob the; sin is a plural word, sin is sin,
2007-04-13 02:23:56 · update #2
Dedicate; check your spelling.
2007-04-13 02:27:40 · update #3
Caicos T good answer thets where I'm at.
2007-04-13 02:30:58 · update #4
Caicos T good answer thats where I'm at.
2007-04-13 02:32:26 · update #5
Caicos T good answer that's where I'm at.
2007-04-13 02:32:47 · update #6
Sory must be fat fingers.
2007-04-13 02:34:24 · update #7
Years ago I was struck by the remark made by a pastor who had more experience of human nature than I did. He said that if we really knew ourselves we wouldn't be shocked by anything anyone else did. The more I progress in my earthly journey, the more I tend to agree with him. The things we seize upon in criticising other people are the very things which we know are wrong in us, as Jesus pointed out in the Sermon on the Mount. He went on in Matthew chapter 7 v 1-2 to warn us against judging others, as we would be liable to be judged by the same yardstick.
2007-04-13 02:23:07 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
While we all have to make character judgements in daily life, such as "I am not going to leave my child at so-and-so's house because they (whatever)", or "I'm not going to hire this recently released ex-con to handle cash in my business"....... it's a fine line between making decisions like that and assassinating someone's character over things we also do, but just haven't been "caught" yet. We're all guilty to some extent, (yep, even me, I will admit) and it's the ultimate in being a hypocrite. You made a very good point.
2007-04-13 02:24:40 · answer #2 · answered by Squirrley Temple 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That doesn't mean that we can't make value judgements and determine that someone is doing wrong. It means we don't get to decide who is saved and who isn't. Also, each of us clearly does not do "the same things" that others do.
For instance, I don't cheat on my wife, I don't steal, and I don't bash puppies in the head with a hammer. Thus, I am perfectly within my rights as a Christian and a human being to make a judgement that someone who does those things is doing wrong. Granted, I am also obligated to try to see the good side of those people as well, and not to assume that they are not saved. Also, making a value judgement about a person's conduct does not entititle me or anyone else to treat them in an unkind manner.
2007-04-13 02:18:02 · answer #3 · answered by Bob the Builder 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Good point.
I would like to believe that if Paul were alive today he would be quite distressed over how people have taken his words as a kind of new Law with which to judge others and dictate every single aspect of human behavior for Christians.
Even Paul recognised that despite his views, everyone needed to follow their own path to Christ he said,
"Let every man be fully persuaded in his OWN mind." in Romans 14:5
He also said that we should not judge other people thus causing them to stumble in Romans 14:13.
If you look at all the people who have been turned off from Christian faith and the wonderful aspects of Christ's love because of ignorant, spiritually immature, bible worshipping fundamentalists who spend all their time decifering Paul's letters and using them as a measure of Christ's mind ( Peter described them as 'weak and unstable' in their faith in 2 Peter 3:16) and it makes your point so abundantly clear.
2007-04-13 02:23:57 · answer #4 · answered by jessicabjoseph 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Paul and Jesus both were howling into the wind on that one. One of the pleasures of believing you have the only correct revelation of God available to humanity is the opportunity to lecture everyone else on what's wrong with their lives. The notion that Christians would pass that by anymore than the Scribes and Pharisees was wishful thinking.
2007-04-13 02:18:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We can judge others; and we probably do do the same thing. Can we judge that they did a 'super good and godly thing' rather judge they did a bad thing???
To God's glory, may you receive there today a large pleasant reward!!!
2007-04-13 02:33:08 · answer #6 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I specifically remember Jesus saying that we should remove the log in our eye before we tell our neighbor to remove the speck in theirs.
If we are not allowed to judge others, how can you say Hitler was an evil person for what he did?
2007-04-13 02:27:37 · answer #7 · answered by jaherrera3499@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When people make their judgmental statements to condemn others, they know that the focus is elsewhere, and the spotlight is not glaring on their own faults. Many act as though their judgments channeled through them by the voice of God. Another way of describing it is self-righteous behaviour.
2007-04-13 02:16:58 · answer #8 · answered by SB 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I Corinthians 2: 14- 16 clarifies that :
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned.
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him : But WE have the mind of Christ.
2007-04-13 02:22:46 · answer #9 · answered by Israel-1 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This has been used against unlearned Christians for years to shut them up.
1 John 3:6
No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
2007-04-13 02:19:16 · answer #10 · answered by sdr35hw 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋