Context, context, context
This is not a scripture telling us not to judge..it is warning us to judge rightly
Mat 7:1 ¶ Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Mat 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
It is a warning to judge correctly...
All through the gospel Christ actually instructs us to judge fruit..and not to be unequally yoked..(requiring us to make a spiritual judgement)
He tells us not to caste pearls before swine..(also requiring a spiritual judgement)
1Cr 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1Cr 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
Every time we present the gospel, we are making a judgement that the person NEEDS to hear it
In this case, hearing the words that came from the mouth of Mother Teresa... one can judge if her testimony was one of a Christian
She needed to hear the good news.. she did not need to try to work her way to salvation
I do hope that before her last breath SOMEONE had the courage to tell her..
Weren’t some Catholics just complaining about quotes of Mother Teresa’s being taken out of context?
The theological incoherence and spiritual peril of the position held against Mother Teresa is increasingly apparent. Now she is in hell (and now this is a judgment permitted to mortal men), because on the basis of dishonestly excerpted and assembled quotes and a spiritual aridity which is, as I said, Dominically and Scripturally described as a sign of blessedness a case can be made that she had the wrong opinions about Jesus.
Because some Protestants give themselves airs over their good works, they cannot imagine someone who really thinks and feels that even good works are graces, that merit is a gift. Because some Protestants think that when Jesus says "Take up your cross daily," one should feel more ebullient, jolly, and confident than Jesus evidently felt in His crucifixion they conclude from Mother Teresa's desolation, NOT that she was blessed with chastisement and privileged to bear in her heart the marks of Jesus (cf. Gal 6:17), but that she was not given grace.
It is, indeed, consistent with the "snow on a dung hill" notion that God's imputation is somehow impotent to effect real change. This image, whatever it may be intended to mean, suggests that justification is superficial. I mean, work the metaphor! I can enjoy being in heaven and others can enjoy my presence only because my essential nature is dusted with something which looks clean. As long as heaven is too cold for snow to melt, my stench and foul appearance will be concealed. Is this really a suitable metaphor for blessedness?
Our Lord insists that we must carry a cross, that we must die daily. St Paul repeatedly asserts that to be in Christ is to die and to be reborn. Yet when some observe that dreadful and gracious promise coming true, they think it means an absence of grace and faith. But this desolation is their evidence!
Claims are made of a right and duty of spiritual discernment, while the burning way of dross is thought to be not a refinement but a curse.
The Lord is a demanding spouse. He finds us at the curb or in the alley. He insists on washing and clothing us, on having us sleep in unfamiliar beds rather than our vermin infested bundle of rags.
He is a demanding healer. He pokes and prods, debrides, disinfects, and stretches us until we feel our limbs must spring from their sockets.
He is an exigent shepherd, putting us in awkward positions to trim our rotted hooves down to the blood. He runs us through the chutes, and drenches and vaccinates us. And we are tempted by terror when all around us is good and loving care.
He is a stern general who insists his troops be trained and strong and ready, and who means to make them so.
The unchaste and dirty mock. Those lying in their sickness turn away from those being healed. The wild animals with their parasites and short lives scorn the cared-for sheep. Those who do most of their fighting in bars or in their homes belittle the warriors.
The blind claim to see, and so their guilt remains.
I’m grateful that MD answered you for me.
He did what I am not able to do.
As for all the Scriptures you offered, if I had the time -—and the desire-—to respond Scripture for Scripture, I could offer just as many or more passages that could balance or perhaps even re-position and re-interpret the Scriptures you gave.
There is still that deeper, profound meaning of our call to bear the Cross of Christ, even to one of His Seven Words from the Cross, His cry of abandonment-—this redemption from His Cross for all those who are in darkness and need to be brought to His own marvelous light. It is akin to the sword that Simeon said would pierce the heart of Mary (Luke), signifying how she would share spiritually with her Son that burden of the last act of the crucifixion.
We are Christ-bearers, not just in words, but in the very participation in his Cross; “take up your cross and follow me.”
Our own St. John of the Cross wrote an entire book revealing the “Dark Night”, the “desert experience” and how it was a work of purification given by God, and not just only for our own sins and faults, but also for others (as other Simon of Cyrenes).
Mother Teresa fulfilled the beautiful words from Psalm 84: “when they go through the Bitter Valley, they make it a place of springs.”
She did that.