Yes, we all need God’s mercy, but this “not judging” others - we are beyond stupid and not obeying God if we don’t judge bad behavior and condment it for what it is. We aren’t supposed to be arrested people and making our own legal judgements and condemning people to death for adultery, but we’re not supposed to sit around saying “It’s all good” and not condmening evil!
I agree. I wasn’t saying that we shouldn’t make judgments about good and evil. Only that we should be very careful about setting ourselves up as judges of others. I guess it amounts to “hate the sin, love the sinner”. Of course people do things that are evil and bad and end up hurting themselves and others. But it’s a slippery slope into self-righteousness when people allow themselves to gloat over the results of others’ bad choices. You don’t know the road that the person has travelled or what caused them to make those bad choices, only God does. So I’m just saying that - especially with the subject of AIDS - it’s easy to become self-righteous. While condemning the sin, we can still have compassion on the sinner, because we are fellow sinners and all in need of God’s mercy.
Well said.
While Christ paid the price for all sin, past, present and future, the consequences of sin still remain, especially regarding human relationships, personal freedom, our volition, and temptations from scarred soul in our memory recall.
We don’t have to remain in bondage, as the issue of sin may be resolved in a moment, but good and evil still must be resolved in time.