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Topic: Judging
oldhippie1952's photo
Sun 08/19/12 04:57 AM
If you walk with Jesus there is no inferior or superior feelings. You feel blessed is all. Those with inferior or superior feelings have fallen into some of the seven deadly sins: envy, jealousy or pride.

You also rejoice when someone else does good and gives praise to God, as does the person who achieved good.

That is what makes it hard to say you are Christian sometimes, the zealots who blindly (as in cannot see what they are doing) pursue God with evil ways and feelings of superiority.

So to me there is no inferior or superior, there is just different.

Musicmaker1969's photo
Thu 10/18/12 10:04 PM
We are not to judge people, but we can judge (within our own minds silently) by a person's words and actions, whether or not we want to associate with them or not. God is the Ultimate Judge and the only One who has any right to cast forth a vote, unless we are called to Jury duty here on earth. But it is not for us to go to a person and say, "you did this wrong, you said that,...." etc. If we find fault with a Christian brother or sister, the best way to resolve it is to speak with your pastor about it and perhaps you and the person you are concerned about can sit together and talk with your pastor. We don't know what is behind the action of another human being, nor do we know what kind of horror they may have just experienced that may have dragged them down a bit. Best bet? Pray for God to reveal to you your own faults and pray that God opens the eyes of the person to the concern you have. I've tried this and it works every time, because I check my own motives first and also pray God gets the person or persons to check theirs as well :)

Blessings.

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