Folks, Bryanw92 is right.
We grew up in a generation that has been taught "judge not lest you be judged." Yet we ignore other scriptures that teach to do just that, judge others, but it's not the type of "judgement" that spells out another's eternal condemnation.
I found three words in the Greek that the Bible translates "judge" or "judgeth." Those words are:
1. Krino
a.Strong's Concordance: by implication to try, condemn, punish: - avenge, condemn, damn, decree, determine, esteem, judge.
b. Thayers: to be judged, i.e. summoned to trial that one’s case may be examined and judgment passed upon it
2. Diakrino
a. Strong's Concordance: discern
b. Thayer's: to determine, decide a dispute
3. Anakrino:
a. Strong's Corcondance: properly to scrutinize, that is, (by implication) investigate, interrogate, determine: - ask, question, discern, examine, judge, search.
b. Thayer's: examine or judge, to investigate, examine, enquire into, scrutinise, sift, question, specifically in a forensic sense of a judge to hold an investigation.
So you see, in many cases we are commanded to investigate matters and make judgements/discernment's/examinations of different topics and matters as a part of our Christian experience. Any pastor who does not teach this is either very misinformed, a bad pastor, or a false prophet himself. There's no other way to look at it.
The Lord Jesus warned us in Matthew 7:15 about "false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves." Even the Apostle Paul us of "grievous wolves" in Acts 20:29.
We must be on our guard, especially in these Last Days.
>>Dude, you must be a pastor of a church, either that or a well-informed parishoner.
>>Folks, Bryanw92 is right.
Thanks. I’m just a well-informed parishoner. I was studying to be a Lay Minister in the UMC when I began to doubt their theology. The more I studied, the more I doubted. The more I began to doubt their theology, the more that I could see where the weakness in their beliefs opened the door to liberalism and Satan. So, I quit and left the church because a church must be strong to survive and doubly strong to survive and maintain godliness in this age.