Some thouguts on judging

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Willie-T

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Another excerpt from Mere Christianity...

The bad psychological material (disturbance) is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be cured. And by the way, that is very important. Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. When a neurotic who has a pathological horror of cats forces himself to pick up a cat for some good reason, it is quite possible that in God's eyes he has shown more courage than a healthy man may have shown in winning the V.C. (Medal of Honor) When a man who has been perverted from his youth and taught that cruelty is the right thing, does some tiny little kindness, or refrains from some cruelty he might have committed, and thereby, perhaps, risks being sneered at by his companions, he may, in God's eyes, be doing more than you and I would do if we gave up life, itself, for a friend.

It is as well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, and then with the bad upbringing, and then with the power, say, of Himmler? That is why Christians are told not to judge.
 
I have a friend who is retired from preaching. He used to often say that when we stand and look at someone, we have no Earthly idea what that person has gone through, or overcome, to be standing at the point where they are now, where we are just itching to judge him for not being further.
 
My thoughts on judging is that ALL of us judge (preachers included) no matter how often we are told we should not. :cool:
 
For me to tell someone not to judge, I must first judge that s/he has done something wrong. :eek:

We are to make righteous judgements, not judgements based on mere appearance(John 7:24).

The Bible is full of judgmental statements...declaring one action morally proper and another action morally bankrupt.

Pastors preach sermons that declare actions/activities morally proper or morally bankrupt based on Scripture's teachings.

For me, I'm going to judge. What the Scripture declares and judges immoral, I will declare immoral(and strive to flee from it). What Scripture judges to be good, fruitful, holy, and pleasing to God, I'm going to likewise declare as good, fruitful, holy, and pleasing to God(and pursue it).

:)

 
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