I disagree.
This does not mean that a Christian should never render judgement of any kind under any circumstances.
It means man shouldn’t judge who is or is not going to heaven.
You Baptists have a pretty strict interpretation of scripture that borders on bigotry, I know this from my Baptist friends. As far as the BSA is concerned you’re wrong. Worshiping one creator who has many names is IMHO what the intent of the program is all about, though that interpretation is rather conservative should RonF ping in here. To say that Islam doesn’t meet this standard is wrong and you’ve made no case that it isn’t and proved nothing through scripture.
Actually, I'm probably worse than a Baptist; more of a mouthful, to be sure. Try Dispensational, Premillennial, Pretribulational Fundamentalist Christian. That usually generates some very interesting comments, to say the least, especially when I add Creationist to the mix. That really gets them going. Perhaps I should have written this paragraph at the outset, thereby saving you a lot of grief over the issue. What to you think?
If you understood that, what it means, then you will also understand why I cannot accept your proposition that Allah, Shiva, Bramham, Buddah (and his little wood box), the Acended Masters, Druid tree spirits, etc., are all different names for the G-d of the Bible.
You seem to be very fond of Matthew 7:1, but have you read down a little further?
"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it"(Matt. 7:13-14).
You believe that I am wrong in judging certian belief systems to be false. You cite the Bible as supporting your conclusion, and yet the Bible condemns those systems as false, as I have shown above.
If Jesus Christ is considered to be anyone or anything other than G-d in the flesh, whoever holds that position is wrong. "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30). Again, I do not judge them; they judge themselves. The Bible serves to clarify the issue.
That is yet another mark of a cult. The selective use of Bible Scripture, those which, when taken out of context, can be made to appear as supporting a view that the context does not.
As far as the BSA is concerned, if they want to embrace that kind of pluralism, they do so at their own spiritual peril. Those conflicting, contridictory belief systems will only undermine and weaken the foundation. Perhaps that foundation was never very strong. When I was a Boy Scout, in the early '60's, there was little discussion, if any, about religion. It seemed that, so long as one didn't have a desire to sacrifice a chicken and divine the future based on the positioning of it's entrails, they didn't care much. Oh there was prayer, the Lord's Prayer, but not much else. Perhaps all this contention with the Sodomites they are dealing with is the result of that lax, "devil may care" attitude I experienced.