If this is true,then you are in error. What the Church teaches is without error because the HS prevents the Church from error. However. individuals who are not acting in union with the Teachings of Jesus have no such protection. Such individuals can, and do, sin against God, and fellow men. For that reason, it is very important that you care what the Church officially declares. Otherwise, it is like judging the teaching of Jesus by those who did not follow it. Would you say that, since Judas betrayed Christ, what Jesus taught is not just?
Well, pride is part of our human nature. If we are not healed from it in this life, we will be in the next.
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Hi Guan,
I don’t understand where people get the idea that we can not “judge” people’s actions. The Bible tells us that we “must judge”
“JUDGE NOT, LEST YE BE JUDGED” is often quoted by THE HYPOCRITES to those who PUBLICLY OPPOSE SIN.
You seem to fall right into that error. I know you are too knowledgeable for that. Whats up?
Look at the passage in its context:
MATTHEW 7:1-5:
“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull the mote out of thine eye; and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
Clearly, it is hypocritical judgment that this Scripture condemns. Now, look at verse 6, and 13-15. Do you see that Christ actually instructs them to make judgments? A hypocritical judgment is judging something for something of which you are also guilty - LIKE TELLING ME NOT TO JUDGE WHEN YOU ARE JUDGING ME! This passage means the opposite of what hypocrites often interpret it to mean! Jesus’ point is for hypocrites to pluck the beam of sin out of their own eye so that they can see clearly to cast the mote out of their neighbor’s eye.
So if I was a protestant of lets say the Luthern persuasion and I called someone a heretic because they were Baptist It would apply. Now as a catholic, it doesn’t apply! Just like people say we are arrogant these same people could call Jesus arrogant. He also was telling the truth!
Step up to the plate. Do not agree with lies to make people have a warm feeling. if they don’t change their path I think they will encounter a “warm” feeling for eternity!
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Am I judging? Darn right! As I should do, as a Catholic attempting to help others not be damned! Or so I believe!
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Let’s look at some other Scriptures…
JOHN 7:14: “Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
LUKE 12:57: “Yea, and why not even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?”
PSALM 37:30: “The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.”
PROVERBS 31:9: “Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”
LUKE 17:3: “Take heed… If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.”
LEVITICUS 19:15-17: “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor. Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am the Lord. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.”
EZEKIEL 22:2 & 23:36: “Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? Yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations… The Lord said moreover unto me, Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? Yea, declare unto them their abominations.”
ISAIAH 58:1: “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.”
MATTHEW 3:2,7: John the Baptist preaching, “Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?”
MATTHEW 23: Jesus publicly rebuked the hypocrites, “Woe unto you… hypocrites!..ye blind guides…fools…full of extortion and excess…whited sepulchres…full of hypocrisy and iniquity…Woe unto you…Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?”**
. I normally attend any one I wish. I am always welcomed and I do not maintain a “high” parish profile, although I am extremely active in state and diocesan groups, Knights of Columbus, ACTS, Pro-life, Seminary support, Habitat for Humanity activities etc. Many people only know me by my first name, if at all.