Comments on: Judge not! What does that mean? http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2007/02/judge-not-what-does-that-mean/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:25:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Scroll http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2007/02/judge-not-what-does-that-mean/#comment-68 Scroll Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:56:24 +0000 http://reclaimingthemind.org/devblog/index.php/2007/02/06/judge-not-what-does-that-mean/#comment-68 The person in Matthew 7:1-6 who's doing the judging seems to have the greater peace of wood in his eye. It's like a serial killer telling someone who's struggling with profanity to stop swearing. Jesus also criticized the Pharisees for neglecting more important matters while blowing up less important things. This passage is about helping a brother(believer), but you cannot help anyone if your worse than they are.(Blind leading the blind) Another thing that must be remembered is that the Apostle Paul also had very poor judgment while he was still Saul. He wrote in 1 Timothy 1:13 that God showed him mercy because he acted in ignorantly in unbelief. After grace he judges all the time on matters of belief and practice in all his letters because he was confident in his judgments and knew that his sins were forgiven through God's grace. The "problem" with God's grace is that it raises our accountability, we cannot claim blindness anymore, once being enlightened to some degree. (Hebrews 6:4-8) As far as the "being in some other persons shoes" argument is concerned, I think that it's mostly folk theology. Most people who were self-righteous in the Gospels were people who refused to be corrected by Christ and rejected Him as Messiah. (Pharisees,Sadducee) Please correct me if I'm wrong. The Apostle Paul also writes about judging someone for something while your doing the same thing and then being judged by God.(Romans 2:1-4) The most important thing is not to justify oneself through nonsense arguments (like Adam and Eve after they sinned), God doesn't buy it. Rather admit your wrong (repent) and be justified by God. Finally, Christians need the correction of other Christians because the world and the devil couldn't care less what happens to us, as long as we are harmless to them. The person in Matthew 7:1-6 who’s doing the judging seems to have the greater peace of wood in his eye. It’s like a serial killer telling someone who’s struggling with profanity to stop swearing. Jesus also criticized the Pharisees for neglecting more important matters while blowing up less important things. This passage is about helping a brother(believer), but you cannot help anyone if your worse than they are.(Blind leading the blind)

Another thing that must be remembered is that the Apostle Paul also had very poor judgment while he was still Saul. He wrote in 1 Timothy 1:13 that God showed him mercy because he acted in ignorantly in unbelief. After grace he judges all the time on matters of belief and practice in all his letters because he was confident in his judgments and knew that his sins were forgiven through God’s grace.

The “problem” with God’s grace is that it raises our accountability, we cannot claim blindness anymore, once being enlightened to some degree. (Hebrews 6:4-8)

As far as the “being in some other persons shoes” argument is concerned, I think that it’s mostly folk theology. Most people who were self-righteous in the Gospels were people who refused to be corrected by Christ and rejected Him as Messiah. (Pharisees,Sadducee) Please correct me if I’m wrong.

The Apostle Paul also writes about judging someone for something while your doing the same thing and then being judged by God.(Romans 2:1-4)

The most important thing is not to justify oneself through nonsense arguments (like Adam and Eve after they sinned), God doesn’t buy it. Rather admit your wrong (repent) and be justified by God.

Finally, Christians need the correction of other Christians because the world and the devil couldn’t care less what happens to us, as long as we are harmless to them.

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