Fatmop
Active Member
I definitely do not believe it is ok to judge others. It's just fine to criticize, as netdoc said, but judgment is a final and unchanging concept. "Rooting out evil in the flock" can not be the job for man - look at the case (fictitious but parallel to reality) of Sonya in Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, his family and friends, and the convicts at the gulag recognize her as a beacon of hope and spiritual purity, yet because of her poverty, she was forced to take a socially unacceptable job. Those who judged Sonya, such as Luzhin, were always in the wrong, in part because they thought they knew how to discern good from evil.
Moral of the story? Don't judge others, even if you have the Bible memorized from cover to cover. You may not know their whole story; you may be completely wrong; and you will almost certainly make yourself and your church look worse.
Moral of the story? Don't judge others, even if you have the Bible memorized from cover to cover. You may not know their whole story; you may be completely wrong; and you will almost certainly make yourself and your church look worse.