Calling Out A Person's Sin Publicly

[clem456]

But, you could also use the “we are just human” argument to justify closing all the lawcourts down as well.

“We are just human beings.”
It’s not an argument, it’s an observation of reality. Just like:
“he made them male and female”.
That’s not an argument, it’s an observation of reality.

In relation to God and his abilities and knowledge, etc…it is a reality that we are limited. And if we make ourselves like God (read Genesis) we are in trouble.

Also, the passive will thing is a good point. But, why would God even make mention of this if He didn’t see some good in its outcome?

God “mentions” things in various ways. He reveals himself. The Church has the fullest sense of that revelation. The “mentions” you are citing are to be taken in the context of the Church’s teaching and pastoral practice.

Revelation is three inseparable sources:
Scripture
Tradition
Living Magisterium

Other churches may take these “mentions” out of context as stand-alones. The Catholic Church does not.

 

[MysticMissMisty]

You’re interested in Catholicism.
You ask on a Catholic board.
Catholics answer.
And then you continue to argue your position which seldom concedes that the Catholic might know something about the Catholic teaching.
The question has been answered again and again.
We are not to call people out.
It’s uncharitable, there’s no guarantee that we know the whole story…and we are to do unto others as we would have them do to us.
I am thinking right now of people are so “hot” to believe that a crime was committed, that innocent people are accused and then prosecuted.
That’s where the sin lies. Calling people out when there’s no real foundation to do so.
If we don’t point fingers we don’t have to worry.
I’m out.

I agree that many people do get too “hot under the collar” about some offense or other being committed against them or others. And, yes, that is irrational and inexcusable behavior – precisely the kind of behavior my hypothetical (or not so much…) Twitterer is trying to call out and correct. He gets a “nasty” response to something he says as a public figure, he retweets it, and he calls it out, not getting “hot under the collar” himself but, rather, sometimes gently sometimes firmly pointing out both to the person and to his followers how incredibly negative it can be. He thinks that he is doing something good in what he is doing and so have I, until I thought about it today in the light of Jesus’ words about going to someone privately.

So, in a public forum, is this tweeter sinning in any way by what he is doing as I described it?

 

[Beryllos]

So, you think that it is sinful even to honor a person for doing rightly?

No. I would say that a person should act rightly because of love, not in order to gain reward or honor, and similarly a person should avoid sin because of love, not in order to avoid punishment or shame. Honor and shame are so Old Testament.

 

[HelenRose]

I agree that many people do get too “hot under the collar” about some offense or other being committed against them or others. And, yes, that is irrational and inexcusable behavior – precisely the kind of behavior my hypothetical (or not so much…) Twitterer is trying to call out and correct. He gets a “nasty” response to something he says as a public figure, he retweets it, and he calls it out, not getting “hot under the collar” himself but, rather, sometimes gently sometimes firmly pointing out both to the person and to his followers how incredibly negative it can be. He thinks that he is doing something good in what he is doing and so have I, until I thought about it today in the light of Jesus’ words about going to someone privately.

So, in a public forum, is this tweeter sinning in any way by what he is doing as I described it?

I really have no business passing out any kind of judgement on twitter because I do not have, never have had and never intend to have anything to do with twitter.