[Finny]

You're exactly correct -- I judge, and any conscious creature on this planet judges in order to survive. But our Bible makes it crystal clear how and when certain judgments belong to God, and certainly the passage in the bible where Jesus challenged "Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone," applies DIRECTLY and EXACTLY to what happened here. Rush forgot to counsel Christ before he went off on his angry rant, and sure I judge him for it, but laughing at myself while I do so because I know perfectly well that I've made the same kind of mistake myself often enough. But truth is truth, and Rush reaped what he sowed. That's not a judgement, that's an observation.

Understand the difference between observing and judging. I merely observed that Rush failed to follow God's rules and thus is feeling the consequences.

[rodguy911]

Do you hand out those little white tabs at the church on SUnday?

[beandog]

BS, that’s my judgment and observation.

[sloop]

...forgot to counsel Christ before he went off on his angry rant...

leave rush's soul for rush to worry about - examine your own nasty words instead of lecturing others

[BuckeyeTexan]

May we continue that thought process a little further as Paul outlined it in 1 Corinthians 5:9-13 (NKJV)?

(9) I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. (10) Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. (11) But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner— not even to eat with such a person.

(12) For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? (13) But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”

Paul tells us that it is our job to judge our brothers in Christ - fellow believers. We must confront them about sexual immorality, idolatry, covetousness, extortion, etc.

Then he makes it clear that it is God's job to judge the unbelievers.

Since I consider Rush a believer and Fluke an unbeliever, I think Rush was right in apologizng.