Christians are to judge all things by the Word.
Yes but are we to judge where salvation is concerned?
Romans 3
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
1John1
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Mat 7
5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
It appears to me that in mat 7:5 Jesus was talking about the same thing that is seen in Paul and John above.
We can like something or not, or if the Bible says its wrong then it is wrong and we can say it, but we do not have the right to condemn some one to hell, only God can do that.
And besides, more people are judged for breaking man made ideas of right and wrong than they are for breaking scriptural laws.
You don,t see any one in the Churches defending the right for people to smoke, but when it comes to something the scriptures forbid and calls an abomination they are all over the place defending the right of same sex marriage.
If the Churches do not start getting along better and pulling together they will soon destroy each other.
But Man is forever man, if Christians started getting along and quit bashing each other and forgetting their differences and just start obeying the Church leaders the Church would soon be telling the leaders of the world what to do, but wait??? that is kinda how it started ain,t it?
Salvation is of The Lord, so it is way beyond my purview. We can, however, identify those who believe, as Paul put it, “another gospel.” And we are not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers and we are to separate from them. In order to do those things we must judge.
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.”