Friday, 01 June 2012
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Is It Okay To Judge Others?
We are constantly afraid of the world seeing our brokenness and our mistakes. Even though the world will judge us, their judgment does not matter. Only God has the actual ability to judge us because He is perfect. Not even His angels can judge us, even though they are always with God.
The only human that can judge us is also God; Jesus. He came here and led a sinless life and died with no sins of His own but with the sins of every one that was and is to come. Jesus is our judge; The Ultimate Judge. He does not give out parole or community service or even jail time. He gives you a home in heaven to hang out with him for eternity, or your own special room in hell with the devil for eternity. His judgment is perfect, because He is with us. He hears us. He sees us. He feels us. He helps us. He talks to us. He is all around us and always in us.Why are we worried about what the world thinks and not about what God thinks? God does not have to think anything about your life; instead, God knows everything about your life and all that you are dealing with. Worry about His judgment and not the world's because the world’s judgment is almost never ‘final’. But God's can never be reversed.
We have no right to judge others! We are not perfect, and we make imperfect judgments. We have all found ourselves deep in sin at some time or another -- even if we put ourselves there or not, it does not matter. We were there. We can’t judge others because we have all done sin. All sin is the same in God’s eyes. And of we judge others for a sin then we are just being hypocritical.
God does not want hypocrites hanging out with Him up in heaven! For they say one thing and then do something different. That is lying. Judging others in turn makes you a liar. Judging says you are perfect in where they are wrong. But no one but God is truly perfect.
Is it ever okay to judge someone else for his or her sin? Are you ever guilty of judging others' sins before considering your own? When have you been judged by others, and how did that experience change your perspective on judging others?
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You clowns have had the same boring repetitive posts over and over and over and over for the past 5 years. How many times do you have to go to 6 year old Sunday school before actually studying real theology??? No wonder "christians" are laughed at for being "genius's"!
What's the next lesson Jonah and the fishy????
On the bright side at least the atheists won't be worried anytime soon
Excellent post and excellent questions, Jordon. I have been blessed by the experience of being misjudged horrendously by my community but with Christ by my side through it all.
Jesus taught that we should not judge, but when we judge... In other words, He knows that we cannot help ourselves when it comes to judging others because it comes just naturally to us through Adam's sin. Therefore "when" we judge we should use the measures which He uses: Grace. Mercy. Compassion. Love. etc. but never condemnation. In Him there is no condemnation.
May God bless you richly in the ministries to which He is calling you.
Revelife just had almost the exact same post. Here's the comment I left there.
There's different types of judgment in scripture. We can't judge anyone to hell, only God can. But for Christians regarding other Christians, the bible says we can judge, as we see in I Cor. 5:9-13. Jesus also touches on this where he says if someone sins against you and you go to that person and they don't repent, then you bring them before the church and if they still don't repent, you judge them as a heathen.
@LadyboyRevolution@xanga - (P.S. If you don't want to read this, you should probably not be insulting other 'religions'. It only makes you look as if you don't have any respect for anyone but yourself).
For one; if you’re going to insult someone you should get
ALL of your facts straight. It was a whale, not a fish. If you're an atheist,
then that means that you believe that science holds all the answers. If you
really believed that, you would be doing your research and know the very
distinct differences, between the 'fishy' and the mammal, known as the whale. All
science really does, is really prove to us Christians that God is real. Like
the creation of the earth:
Christian version: Genesis 1 Message translation
Heaven and Earth
1 -2First this: God
created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup
of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded
like a bird above the watery abyss.
3 -5 God spoke:
"Light!"
And light
appeared.
God saw that light
was good
and separated
light from dark.
God named the light
Day,
he named the
dark Night.
It was evening, it
was morning—
Day One.
6 -8 God spoke:
"Sky! In the middle of the waters;
separate water
from water!"
God made sky.
He separated the
water under sky
from the water
above sky.
And there it was:
he named sky the
Heavens;
It was evening, it
was morning—
Day Two.
9 -10 God spoke:
"Separate!
Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place;
Land, appear!"
And there it
was.
God named the land
Earth.
He named the
pooled water Ocean.
God saw that it was
good.
11 -13 God spoke:
"Earth, green up! Grow all varieties
of seed-bearing
plants,
Every sort of
fruit-bearing tree."
And there it
was.
Earth produced
green seed-bearing plants,
all varieties,
And fruit-bearing
trees of all sorts.
God saw that it
was good.
It was evening, it
was morning—
Day Three.
14 -15 God spoke:
"Lights! Come out!
Shine in
Heaven's sky!
Separate Day from
Night.
Mark seasons and
days and years,
Lights in Heaven's
sky to give light to Earth."
And there it
was.
16 -19 God made two
big lights, the larger
to take charge
of Day,
The smaller to be
in charge of Night;
and he made the
stars.
God placed them in
the heavenly sky
to light up
Earth
And oversee Day and
Night,
to separate
light and dark.
God saw that it was
good.
It was evening, it
was morning—
Day Four.
20 -23 God spoke:
"Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life!
Birds, fly
through the sky over Earth!"
God created the
huge whales,
all the swarm of
life in the waters,
And every kind and
species of flying birds.
God saw that it
was good.
God blessed them:
"Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean!
Birds, reproduce
on Earth!"
It was evening, it
was morning—
Day Five.
24 -25 God spoke:
"Earth, generate life! Every sort and kind:
cattle and
reptiles and wild animals—all kinds."
And there it was:
wild animals of every
kind,
Cattle of all
kinds, every sort of reptile and bug.
God saw that it
was good.
26 -28 God spoke:
"Let us make human beings in our image, make them
reflecting our
nature
So they can be
responsible for the fish in the sea,
the birds in the
air, the cattle,
And, yes, Earth
itself,
and every animal
that moves on the face of Earth."
God created human
beings;
he created them
godlike,
Reflecting God's
nature.
He created them
male and female.
God blessed them:
"Prosper!
Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge!
Be responsible for
fish in the sea and birds in the air,
for every living
thing that moves on the face of Earth."
29 -30 Then God
said, "I've given you
every sort of
seed-bearing plant on Earth
And every kind of
fruit-bearing tree,
given them to
you for food.
To all animals and
all birds,
everything that
moves and breathes,
I give whatever
grows out of the ground for food."
And there it
was.
31 God looked over
everything he had made;
it was so good,
so very good!
It was evening, it
was morning—
Day Six.
Science: Big bang happened, making the atoms spread
everywhere, chunks of dust gathered in areas forming clusters, some clusters
eventually ignited, becoming the stars. But while the stars were igniting all
of the clusters began to form into shapes. Of These clusters the earth was a
clump of molten nickel and iron (molten metals; liquid form AKA formless). Then
the stars ignited but were still dim, because like a campfire, it takes a while
for the flame to get into full inferno. The earth took millions of years to
cool. When cooling, the earth had heavy clouds of steam that went into the
atmosphere, from that after cooling off, the clouds dropped and eventually,
because cooler water is more dese than warm water, began to precipitate (rain).
The waters filled the earth. While that was happening, the land was moving due
to tectonic plates. Eventually this caused the land to rise to the surface. In the
ocean early functional, producer cells began to form, surviving off of the gas,
CO2, which was on the earth. Producer cells, (AKA plants), produced Oxygen
molecules… While the earth was destined to be formed, there were other forms of
gas, floating in space ready to combust like our sun did. Many stars did
combust before our sun, BUT it takes some stars millions of years for their
light to touch this earth, due to the fact that light does have a speed to it. Light,
after millions of years, reached this planet from the other millions of stars that
exist. Also, according to a very possible theory about the moons formation, an asteroid
hit the earth, causing magma to spill out. The magma was caught by the gravity
the large mass of the earth produced, and eventually rounded the mass of
floating, molten rock due to a constant rotational motion, thus; the moon… Well,
after millions of years, the Protista cells that were in the ocean began to
evolve to be able to consume others. Ultimately creating the first, ‘survival
of the fittest’ situation. These protists, eventually evolved into today’s
animal, eukaryotic cells. Thus creating the first actual, marine organisms. The
marine organisms began to evolve more and more, until the arthropods were able
to give rise to the land animals. By this time there was enough oxygen for
animals to survive on the surface of the ocean. Some species of fish also
evolved into reptiles, becoming tetrapod’s giving rise to the mammilla, aves
and the amphibians. Rise to the animals began to happen. Up the evolutionary
chain; we humans are found.
In case your ape friends are not able to read long, scientific
sentences filled with words, bigger than eight letters long, I will sum it up.
Big bang occurred. Liquid metals and gasses floated through
space. Stars ignited. Earth cooled. Clouds formed on the earth. Water rained
down. Land rose up from under the water. In the water plants began. In the
night sky the light from stars at a far distance reached the earth. Plant cells
evolved into animal cells. Animal cells became ocean life. Ocean life evolved
into land animals. Land animals evolved into humans.
Your science just told me the same sequence that the bible
says, on how the earth was formed. And get this; the bible was written
THOUSANDS of years before these theories were.
How could old man mosses figure out how our theories about
the earth will someday be? Well someone who has no faith would say ‘luck’. But
honestly. How could someone be lucky enough to know the creation theories of
thousands of years later than him, written them down, and then had enough luck
left over, that someone would someday find the books and then restore them to
the nations? More luck than winning the power ball, fifty years in a row
without cheating.
Who’s got the power? Not us. Gods got the power. He knows
what was, what is and what is to come.
@jordon -" For one; if you’re going to insult someone you should get
ALL of your facts straight. It was a whale, not a fish."
It says "great fish" in my version. If it says "whale" in your version, then it's an example of the bible being translated according to contemporary understanding rather than according to the earliest texts available.
@jordon - Your "intellectual fortitude" just "overwhelms me". A "whale" not a "fish". POWERFUL REBUTTAL!!! A man living in a "whale" for three days. That makes "scientific sense" speaking of "science". Which I don't give a rat's ass about despite your assumption. At least it is consistent with the presupposition of a walking talking snake stealing the universe. I mean how could I ever refute such "logical" "scientific" and "critical" thought???
I actually enjoy reading theological material if it is written from at least a half way intelligent perspective. Unfortunately that will never be found on this blog. This blog gives me flashbacks of the "deep" teaching I had when I was 10 years old in vacation bible school. It really is that "deep". A "whale not a fish".
Jordon... this is a great question. It can be a confusing one. We hate feeling judged by others, and the Bible tells us not to judge yet it also in some cases it tells us we are to judge (as mentioned in "musterions" post). I found this link a while back and think it describes things well: http://www.gotquestions.org/do-not-judge.html
(Revlife readers, please just ignore trolls like Ladyboyrevolution. They are only posting on revlife to get satisfaction out of annoying Christians. Don't give them that satisfaction.)
@agapeartbeat - when you check on a particular website every six months to see what is "new" or what has "changed" and they are posting the same boring things they did 2 years before maybe your criticism has merit......
Why is this still a discussed? For all you conservatives out there, even I can see the bible is pretty clear that there is a specific time and place for judging (I'm not Christian, so could be wrong about this, but don't think so).
Other than that, has judging others been particularly helpful in bring people to you G-d? No, huh? So stop doing it so much. Just freggin stop. Simply act like nice people and slowly try to impress people to you viewpoint. I think that's pretty damn obvious?!
"All things are permissable, yet not all are beneficial." Paul
So, it's okay to judge others, we are constantly doing so without realising it. In some cases it is beneficial, at other times it is not.
1 Corinthians 5 condones judging other Christians. I wonder what you all think of that.
An underspoken aspect of discussions about judging is how it's essentially impossible not to judge someone in your brain. It's what you do with the thoughts that count.
If someone does something that's just as much stupid as it is wrong, and you know they known better, then you are going to judge them. Condemning someone (judgement + action) is where the real wrongfulness lies.
Someone who says they aren't judgmental isn't being honest.
@agapeartbeat - thanks. I really need to work on not letting people get to me. I'm fine with discussing and debating. but I'm not OK with others putting down what i believe in. it fires me up, and I want to do nothing more than to shove it back. but then prematurely, I strike. I've been working on that. Its hard to ignore those who will attack, but will not debate why it is that the other is wrong. "If you believe something is wrong, but are not willing to explain why, then you should keep it to yourself."
@jordon - I think you have been a little too nice lately. I reread my original comment here and wow I really blasted into you. LOL Wowzers :) Just don't let people make you feel guilty for reacting the way your suppose to react. Nobody is a doormat.
@LadyboyRevolution@xanga - thanks, I probably said somethings that probably were uncalled for. I've really been trying hard on reacting a bit more maturely. It's hard sometimes. but im working on it... wow that was a long time ago. what made you look back?