[RoosterRedux]

I'll bet IMDb really knows all the details about his girl's life. What's that we hear about judging others?

Sheesh.

[alexander_busek]

I'll bet IMDb really knows all the details about his girl's life. What's that we hear about judging others? Sheesh.

IMDb provided me with enough information to make a reasonable evaluation ("messed-up life - generational") for the purpose of contributing a comment to this thread.

I was not making an official pronouncement, or a legal judgement, or speaking with religious authority. I was not writing her obituary. I was not attending a funeral and making snarky comments to the bereaved. I was making a quick comment in a FR thread about a Hollywood celebrity with a patently reprobate lifestyle. The initial facts of the case indicate that she was grossly negligent and endangered others. There is nothing "out of line" about commenting about that, nothing requiring you (or others) to issue a summary rebuke as you did.

As far as what "we hear about judging others," if you are referring to Matthew 7:1, then all I can say is that I am looking forward to one day being judged by an absolute authority. I will not plead "special circumstances" or beg for a particle of mercy. I would insist (if that's the proper word, in this supposed situation) upon being judged fairly - that is all. I am fully prepared to accept the consequences, even if they entail total annihilation.

How could anyone want less (or more) than perfect justice?

Regards,

[MayflowerMadam]

“What’s that we hear about judging others?”

We hear/read:

“judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24). We are SUPPOSED to judge. The Bible is a textbook on how and when to judge.

God is forbidding HYPOCRITICAL judgment in Matthew 7:1 (”Judge not that ye be not judged”)

[Mr Information]

You will be interested in this story about Padre Pio (Saint Pio of Pietrelcina):

“Years ago I read a biography of Saint Pio, who occasionally was given the gift of knowing the fate of deceased souls. Therein was recounted the true story of a woman who came to him terrified that her late husband was sent to hell after he committed suicide by jumping off a bridge over a river. Padre Pio advised her to keep praying for her husband’s soul because the man was in purgatory, having repented and asked for God’s Mercy just before he hit the water!”
https://www.catholicity.com/message/2015-03-13.html

I also saw that story many years ago. The widow believed him and so was comforted, because she hadn’t told Padre Pio how her husband had died.