"Should mortal individuals have the right to pass judgement on anothers faith or is that Gods job?

Question

I am not referring to obviously warped fanatic cults or Satanic worship, but just the commonly accepted faiths and the conflicts of opinion and fanaticism seen amongst them.

I am not referring to one's personal actions presented in the name of a specific religion or those obviously warped fanatic cults including Satanic worship, but just the commonly accepted faiths and the conflicts of opinion and fanaticism we see shared amongst them.

Thank you all for your interesting and varied contributions to this question.
To be fair I don't think any one reply so far would would qualify as best answer.

Thank you all for your participation and interesting and varied contributions to this question.
To be fair I don't think any one reply could ever qualify as best answer to such an abstract question

Answer 1

After viewing the voting, it seems we all have our personal strong feelings about your interesting question!
I would think that a 'greater being' would judge us; we here need to be a bit less judgemental to all we see/want to believe. We are all different, view situations differently and have our personal beliefs about many things. Apart from that, evil is evil; good is preferred.

If I judge you, I may be in error! In reverse, you may judge me and not understand me, either. No one is wrong. We need to just all get along! NO ONE should push onto another their "personal" religious preferences. That should be between "you" and your 'greater being' if you have one.
[keep it to yourselves, it's personal]

If I were a Christian... there are many 'kinds'... I don't want to hear their view, they don't want to hear mine. Let's keep things less judgemental and all live happily.
Best wishes.

Answer 2

I feel that it is very acceptable for educated individuals to look at, and try to understand, other faiths and in doing so draw conclusions about the particular faith. The goal of a faith is to worship, love or/and serve your God and His mission and subsequently receive eternal salvation or be accepted into a heaven. It would be stupid to not analyze other religions in the interest of eternal self preservation...eventually hopefulyy choosing the spiritually correct faith. Individuals have the right to look at other faiths and form opinions of the religion - whether or not you see their actions as a sin in your faith is also acceptable however condemning the person and the action are completely different. We all sin. To quote the New Testament of the Bible "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the plank that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take that speck out of your eye,' while all the while the plank remains in your own?" Matthew 7:3-4Christian or not... these are wise words. Both Jesus and Mohammed judged others by their words though both these individuals are considered to be divine by their followers.

So I would say that non-ignorant conclusions concerning different faiths is acceptable. Judging or condemning actions is acceptable...but cautions must be used - for many faiths(including mine) believe you will be judged as you judge.
Judging a person for or by their faith - I feel - is unaccpetable. I may disagree with you to my own death, though I will respect any legitimate and intelligient faith. (A faith beleivng flying pigs are coming from the heavens to kill all those with freckles and save all the rest of mankind does not constitute as inelligient nor legitimate).

(By this question you are stating that you believe in God, so it is pointless for anyone answering this question to debate whether or not God exists...its not answering the question)

Answer 3

Since we are ALL "mortal individuals", the only issue here is your reference to "passing judgment on others faith"

1. Christians (who indeed are Christian in every sense of the word) do not pass judgment, nor "force" their beliefs on or upon others. That is an untrue accusation, by those who are not interested in hearing the evangelistic message of Christianity.
a. Christians are only sharing or "spreading" the Word of God, as they have received it. The same as (in no implied order of rating) the Non-Christian (unbeliever) or member of any other "mortal" groups or individuals share the declarations of their belief in the faith and strengths of their different convictions; .Atheist, Agnostics, Anti-Christ, Bhuddist, Moslem, Jewish, etc.

b. Yes it is GOD's "job". A job that GOD has delegated to Mortal Beings.

In edition:

As I read the other answers, It come to mind that we have over looked the main point in question. The word "judge" Judgment (also Judgement) is defined as

a. the the mental ability tho perceive and distinguish the relation between two objects.
b. The capacity to form an opinion by distinguishing and evaluating.
c. The capacity to make sound and reasonable decisions; good sense; discernment,
d. The exercise of making sound and reasonable decisions.
e. Something, as an opinion or estimate formed by sound and reasonable evaluation. These are all Mortal attributes and applications.

There is more to be found in the American Heritage Dictionary. But it is the bottom line that applies to this question and that is; it is the FINAL Judgment, that "is the job" or belongs to GOD.

When the Bible says; Mt 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not
judged.
Mt 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you
again.
It does not mean that you should not "judge" , but that you should judge only if you, yourself are willing to be judged.

If I look at a tree that you are calling an apple tree and see pears growing on it, I am not judging you when I say, "that it is not an apple tree"

Or, if I am looking through dirty windows and say that the window across the street is dirty, then my judgment
may be flawed, and I must not be offended if the owner of the window across the street tells me to either wash my own windows or mind my own business..

Did GOD possible have "mortal" judgement in mind when Jesus said:
Matthewt 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

I would be honored to have you judge the quality of my life, all that I ask is that you Judge me in the light of the Word of GOD and not by "snap judgement " or prejudicial, contemporary, consensus.

Answer 4

Let me get this straight. You don't want me to answer because I believe your God is a corrupt, tyrannical bigot who took all the credit for Satans work? That's nice. But I'll answer anyway.

If you do not judge, then you are not exercising your brain, if you do not judge other people, how can you judge for yourself the difference between good and evil? All the "do not judge" thing is just another attempt to restrict what was given to humans. The knowledge of good and evil.

Answer 5

That is a very good question, the asnwer to which could possible bring more 'peace bewteen the different faiths. 'There is no compulsion in religion'. My take on the matter is this, we should be respectful, accomodating and tolerant on everybody's faith (unless there are gross human rights violations taking place ofcourse). Debate is healthy and inevitable, but we take it too far and use religion as an excuse to alienate people. Its rediculous. We are not here to pass judgement, we are fools to be doing so; that is God's duty.

Answer 6

We should not condemn others or judge them unrighteously. We will, however, need to make judgments of ideas, situations, and people throughout our lives. The Lord has given many commandments that you cannot keep without making judgments. He has said, "Beware of false prophets. . .Ye shall know them by their fruits" (Matthew 7:15-16) and "Go ye out from among the wicked" (D&C 38:42).

The Lord taught that a fault we see in another is often like a tiny speck in that person's eye, compared to our own faults, which are like an enormous beam in our eyes. Sometimes we focus on others' faults when we should instead be working to improve ourselves.

Answer 7

We as humans don't have a right to judge others (which is very unloving).


1 Corinthians 5 (The Message)

9-13I wrote you in my earlier letter that you shouldn't make yourselves at home among the sexually promiscuous. I didn't mean that you should have nothing at all to do with outsiders of that sort. Or with crooks, whether blue or white-collar. Or with spiritual phonies, for that matter. You'd have to leave the world entirely to do that! But I am saying that you shouldn't act as if everything is just fine when a friend who claims to be a Christian is promiscuous or crooked, is flip with God or rude to friends, gets drunk or becomes greedy and predatory. You can't just go along with this, treating it as acceptable behavior. I'm not responsible for what the outsiders do, but don't we have some responsibility for those within our community of believers? God decides on the outsiders, but we need to decide when our brothers and sisters are out of line and, if necessary, clean house.


Matthew 7:4-5 (New International Version)

4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.


Romans 12:19-21 (New International Version)

19Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay,"[a]says the Lord. 20On the contrary:
"If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."[b] 21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Footnotes:

Romans 12:19 Deut. 32:35
Romans 12:20 Prov. 25:21,22

Answer 8

Jesus tells us we are to Judge our brothers in the faith,to not forsake the coming together to worship and if need be to bodily pull those about to perish from the fire (sin) He also tells us to not have fellowship with those that are sinning and know better, but to turn them over to the devil, for once you have tasted the good fruit of the Altar and you intentionally sin, there remains no further sacrifice for them.

Answer 9

As you suggest, it is God's job. And we were warned about this very thing... "Judge not, lest you be judged."

But people these days don't pay any attention to that Original Gospel.... they caste their vote for the Pauline version of sacrifice for sin.

To get these gospels sorted out read this source... it restores the proper law on judgment you are speaking about. Forgive others and God will forgive you.

Thanks for bringing up this important subject.

Answer 10

Bad question.

Rights are awarded but taken as a priviledge, even if the stupid mortals don't know it.

Faith can't be judged, religion can.

The mortals don't know the difference, this is obvious by just reading some of the answers you got.

GOD said (Bible), Judge not that ye (you) be not judged.

Summary: We can criticise religion but not faith. We sure can't "see" a person's faith but we can "see" how he/she conducts his life (religion).
;-)