Flash is right, there are degrees of judging people and its ok to do so up to a certain point it's then like offering polite advice to others, but if you begin to impose sanctions that's where the complications begin, is it right to sanction people and to what extend, and it's in grey areas like this with no clear biblical guidelines that the WTS messes around with people by being excessively judgemental eg by claiming that smoking makes a person deserving of eternal damnation to death.
It's always the old principle of capitalising on people's ignorance.
The Right To Judge Others
by FairMind 11 Replies latest jw friends
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greendawn
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RevFrank
MATT 7:1......."Judge not, that you be not judged."
Pretty straight, right? " Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgement." John 7:24.
Oh? would you not think this is a contradiction? In Matthew Christ were talking to hypocrites. And John spoke of ones with rightousness strength.
And to really get into it 1 Corinthians 2 13, 14 speak, " These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?But we have the mind of Christ."
Is judging correct? read Ephesians 5:11-13 & 2 Tim.223-26
PEACE