Matthew 7
1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Let me guess, I'm taking it out of context, right?
All you did was quote the passage, so I have no idea how you mean it. But I will say this, most people take it out of context. It is always amusing to watch God-hating reprobates make a little fig leaf apron of that passage.
Christians are to judge all things by the Word.
Yup exactly... Pappa says a very Biblical thing and gets attacked for having done so.... go figure.....
Very true.
But the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ also said the following as well in reference to judging:
“Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”-John 7:24
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+7%3A24&version=NKJV
1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Note that we are to take the beam out of our eye first. We are to call sin sin, but not judge others if we are struggling with the same sin. For instance if I struggle with lust, I shouldn't say something to someone else who is doing the same.
But then the question is what does judge mean? Condemn? Discern?
One of the principles of understanding Scripture, from the Reformed view anyway, it to let Scripture interpret Scripture. It seems the below does a pretty good job of explaining the above. Helps me to quit worrying about what the lost folks who are not Christians are doing.
1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13 God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
We are called to "judge", but not as a HYPOCRITE.
This passage says it all. Just like the woman who was to be stoned for adultery.
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone".
So the oldest people walked away first, because they had committed the very same sin as the adultress, and countless others.
But remember the final words: "Go and sin no more".
Jesus didn't pat the woman on the head and say: "You're cool, keep on doing what you've been doing!"
I'm sorry, but this Pope is driving me crazy.
He doesn't seem to "get" that he's appearing VERY wishy-washy when it comes to sin.
And in before I get bashed, I'm a Catholic.
But this guy is really not speaking clearly enough.
No, EVERYTHING is NOT OK.
"Who am I to judge?" sounds awesome to liberal ears.
He sounds ridiculous when he makes such statements.
I'm done trying to defend "mistranslations" or "nuances".
Other Popes didn't seem to have this problem.
Let me guess, I’m taking it out of context, right?
I am sure you are but i will let some one more spiritual than i am to take you to task for trying to make a claim that is refuted by the gospel, sarc....