[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for sharing your reading on the verses from the Sermon on the Mount! Personally, I want mercy, not judgment - so I try very hard not to judge others.

[PatrickHenry]

Personally, I want mercy, not judgment - so I try very hard not to judge others.

I know that entire libraries have been written on this subject, and as a layman who hasn't devoted years to the study of scriptural doctrines, I'm quite unqualified to debate with learned theologians. But as I see it, the object is to live one's life so well that judgment is not to be feared, and mercy isn't required. (But if I'm found wanting, I'll be grateful for all the help I can get.) Anyway, I'm judgmental; but I don't exempt myself from my judgments.

[habs4ever]

Why shouldn't you judge? It's normal, its part of making distinctions.It doesn't preclude empathy or sympathy, or an understanding of human weakness.Can you honestly fail to judge a murderer, a terrorist, a thief, a liar? We do such things in all our actions....

I am not sure if the Southern bapstist tradition is one you approve or not.Bill Clinton got so many "get out of jail cards free" while repenting on Sundays.What price is paid for one's sins by such easy forgiveness? Will the sinner mend his ways when the non judgemental way is in its ascendency?

[AndrewC]

Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

[PatrickHenry]

2 Peter 3:17
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

[AndrewC]

2Pe 3:16 As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.