[Mrs. Don-o]

My denomnation is 'way too judgmental' on this issue?

We teach, in fact, that NOBODY has the right to say "You are damned" or "He is damned" or "This guy (this named person) is in hell."

We have a right - in fact a duty --- to judge

• words as to whether they are true or false
• acts as to whether they are right or wrong
• concepts as to whether they are good or evil.

These things are objectively knowable. God says "Judge with sound judgment."

But it is otherwise for judging persons as to their individual nner spiritual state.

We do not know the very heart of the person: only God does. Thus we may not say, with moral certainty as a dogmatic fact, that even Judas is in hell. He way well be. He put himself into grave moral peril. But we do not know whether he gasped with his last strangled breath, "I have sinned! Lord have mercy!"

But true, I DO tout the Company Line, and hope I always may. God's word, which will never pass away.

[ealgeone]

My denomnation is 'way too judgmental' on this issue?

Yep.

We teach, in fact, that NOBODY has the right to say "You are damned" or "He is damned" or "This guy (this named person) is in hell."

Yet Rome does it all the time with their anathemas if people don't believe what Rome says they have to believe....which is often not in line with the New Testament.

But true, I DO tout the Company Line, and hope I always may. God's word, which will never pass away.

You do tout the "company line"....it's the part about God's word that is in question. See my tagline.

SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE! However, Roman Catholicism has, does, and will change.