[Hootowl]

True. The injunction is not against judging per se, but to judge righteously, for if you judge unjustly, the same standard will be applied to your own judgment.

[chuckles]

Also, we cannot judge a man's soul, but we are commanded to judge sin and flee from it. God is clearly our judge, but if we don't recognize sin, how can we abstain from it? Jesus didn't condemn the adulterous woman, but admonished her to stop sinning. He can NEVER accept adultery just because He loves and cares for us.

The pressure today is to call Christians "haters" and deny sin is a sin. The sin has never changed, but the sinner can still be saved. There has never been a culture that survived that accepted homosexuality as normal behavior.

In this train of thought, we could be commanded to leave our garages unlocked in case a homeless man needs a weed eater to pawn for a drink. Stealing and alcoholism is a sin or it's not, no matter how "nice" we want to be to the homeless.

[afsnco]

Agreed completely. We’re to judge others not using unrighteous standards or our own standards, but God’s standards.

Joh 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

And just a couple of verses after the Left’s favorite verse (Matthew 7:1) was this verse:

Mat 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Christ obviously wasn’t speaking about four-footed critters, but PEOPLE who are dogs and swine. And how would we come to the conclusion that they’re dogs and swine unless we JUDGED them to be so?