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To: Heart-Rest

Discernment is not judgement.

IMHO:
If I can read the Scriptures, and they say, for example, that adultery is a sin, then I know, from God’s Word, that adultery is a sin. That is discernment.

If I know that adultery is a sin, and I get angry/reject/hate someone who willfully and repeatedly practices adultery, that is judgement.

So, I can tell the adulterer that he/she is sinning, but I don’t reject/hate/etc. because judgement does not belong to me.

That’s the way I think about it, and it’s harder to put into practice than it is to write about it.


5 posted on 09/10/2014 1:29:23 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Darteaus94025
"Discernment is not judgement."

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See http://biblehub.com/greek/1252.htm

Strong's Concordance

diakrinó: to distinguish, to judge

Short Definition: I distinguish, discern

11 posted on 09/10/2014 1:48:03 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: Darteaus94025
>>So, I can tell the adulterer that he/she is sinning, but I don’t reject/hate/etc.<<

Titus 3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

2 John 1:10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

29 posted on 09/10/2014 6:00:05 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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