Isnt the whole point of jude not lest ye be judged yourself that you should not judge someone’s faith, unless you are ready for your own faith to be questioned?
I see a lot of people claiming with total certainty that certain people do not believe in Jesus. I wonder if those claiming that believe in Jesus themselves.
“Isnt the whole point of jude not lest ye be judged yourself that you should not judge someone’s faith, unless you are ready for your own faith to be questioned?”
First of all, Christ was addressing the unsaved in that speech, not Christians, so in that context, your interpretation fails. How could His warning concern faith when His warning was directed to those without faith?
Now, compare this warning to what Jesus says in the story of the adulterous woman: “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”, whereas here he says “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged”. The two thoughts are parallel and logically congruous, so I think it’s a fair assumption that Christ is talking about the same thing, namely the hypocrisy of sinners judging other sinners.
Even if you don’t agree with that logic, it’s simply not possible for that to be a command not to judge other faiths. Instead of being forbidden to judge, Christians are appointed to judgment in the New Testament, and in fact are prophetically praised for exercising specifically spiritual judgment over those claiming to be Christian themselves (in the letter to the Church of Ephesus in Rev. 2:2):
“2I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:”
Now, this exercising of spiritual judgmnent is listed amongst the good attributes that God recognizes in this church. He is complimenting them for judging, not rebuking them!