Paul clearly told the church to judge those who say the are christians but live in sin. \n\nNIV\n\n1Co 5:9, I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— \n1Co 5:10, not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world\n1Co 5:11, But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. \n1Co 5:12, What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? \n1Co 5:13, God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”\n\nNotice the words "" calls himself a brother ""\nI see no problem "judging" a brother who is living in sin. BUT IN a LOVING WAY.\n\nJude 23, snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy,
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i agree with what u said "judging them,... but in a loving way."  \n\nit's in Mathew and in john but i dont have my bible with me but,\n\nhe is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. \n\nwe we all created in gods image. ( adam, eve created from a rib of adam which was a direct creation from god.)\n\nMatt 28: 19-20a \n  go, create disiples of many nations, baptising them in the name of the father, son, and holy spirit. And teaching them everything i have commamded u.\n\nso we are to judge our brothers in christ. for we are lights to everybody. and we should not judge those who don't know god. but be an example for thoses who don't know and teach those who do know, how to be examples for those who don't know.\n\n (i always say, if a beleiver is short- circuited,lop-side them in the head to fix the interception)  \n\nshort-circuit = in doubt of god\n\ninterception= temptation from satan\n\n hope this helps, i can get the scripture and give u refrences when i get my bible if u want
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A LITTLE HARSH, BUT TRUE.\n\nAMEN BROTHER!\n\nALL THE PEOPLE THAT GAVE HATEFUL ANSWERS ABOUT JUDGING ETC.\n\nTHIS PERSON IS NOT JUDGING, ONLY INTERPRETING WHAT THEY READ IN THE BIBLE.\n\nSHOW ME WHERE IN THE BIBLE IT SAID IT WAS OK FOR A MAN TO STICK IS WEE WEE IN ANOTHER MANS POO POO AND A WOMAN TO LICK ANOTHER WOMEN'S WEE WEE?\n\nIT STRICTLY FORBIDS IT AND SINCE THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD, AND OF THE LORD, THEN HOW IS THIS PERSON GUILTY OF JUDGING?\n\nGROW UP YOU PEOPLE, SEE THE LIGHT AND REPENT.\n\nYOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING IT A SIN, AND YOU KNOW THE CONSEQUENCES FOR IT.  YOUR OWN GUILT MAKES YOU LASH OUT AT GOOD PEOPLE, PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO HELP YOU AND SHOW YOU THE ROAD TO EVERLASTING LIFE ANS SALVATION.\n\nDON'T TURN AWAY FOR THE LORD, YOU ARE HIS CHILD AND HE WILL PROTECT YOU.  CONFESS YOUR SINS AND YOU WILL BE FORGIVEN.\n\nGO IN PEACE, LOVE AND KINDNESS FOR EACH OTHER, GAY, STRAIGHT, BI, ETC.....\n\nWE ALL HAVE SIN, BUT SOME TRY TO LIVE RIGHT, AND GAY IS NOT LIVING RIGHT.
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In order to understand that Scripture you have to read it in the context of the surrounding scriptures. These scriptures are addressing sexual morality. When we choose to become a Christian, we accept what Jesus did for us on the cross, It is His blood shed for our sin that allows God to dwell with us again. We than are in right relationship with our heavenly Father, as it was meant to be from the beginning. When we make Jesus our Lord, He is with us always, that is why we should choose not to commit sin, especially sexual sin. It is like having sex in front of your parents! God ordained Sex for Marriage, It is a covenant between a man and a women. Everything else is a counterfiet.    \n\n1 Corinthians 6:\n12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. \n15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.\n18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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You are not completing these scriptures. Matt: 5:22  reads However, I say to YOU that everyone who continues wrathful with his brother will be accountable to the court of justice; but whoever addresses his brother with an unspeakable word of contempt will be accountable to the Supreme Court; whereas whoever says, ‘You despicable fool!’ will be liable to the fiery Ge·hen′na.\n\nGehenna was a waste heap outside of Jerusalem where the bodies of the dead criminals were burned. This is one of the reasons that man has taught a hell fire doctrine.  Which is not true by the way.  Jesus is talking about non believers and what might happen to them.  Not that it will.  It says liable (or deserving).\n\nMatt: 23:17 Fools and blind ones! Which, in fact, is greater, the gold or the temple that has sanctified the gold?  Meaning spiritual laws or the one who made the laws.  The Jews of Jesus time put more emphasis on obeying the Mosaic laws rather than showing love.  God commands love before the law.\n\nPsalm 14:1The senseless one has said in his heart:\n“There is no God” They have acted ruinously, they have acted detestably in [their] dealing.There is no one doing good. \n\nPeople that claim there is no God are doing so to sooth their consciences.  So they say in their heart "there is no God" and they act detestably in their dealings.\n\nWhy are these contradictory?
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You are wrong, I'm sorry.  We ARE to judge actions according to the faith, and chastise our brethren when they sin.  We are never EVER to judge their heart however.  That's God's job.
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The judging Christians are not supposed to do deals with judging whether a person is righteous or a sinner, only God can judge that.\n\nHowever, we can judge how good one person's pie recipe is compared to another's, how accurate one person's exam questions are compared to the solution key, and how well we think a person would be suited for a particular job, such as public office.\n\nIf we took the admonition to not judge as seriously as you seem to suggest by your question, then we would have to become hermits and avoid all contact with other humans.
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Tell it like it is!! I agree with you! I have ran into some really rotten "christian" people in my life time and a lot of them do not follow the Bible or any teachings until it suits them.
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I would be curious to see what your friend thinks of this scripture from 1 Corinthians 5:12-14...\n\nFor what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”\n\nShe is wrong. Yes. But you are also wrong for basing your salvation on what other people say or do. This will be no excuse in the last day. We must base our self examination with CHRIST as our standard. And without God's grace and mercy, we would all lose, wouldn't we?\n\nYoda Green - I suppose you are an example of the non-judgmental?
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First of all, let me tell you this....A sincere, faithful Christian who practices what God/Jesus really teaches in the Bible, would not belittle you or judge you.  The Bible tells us to first remove the "sin" from ourselves before we go pointing fingers and judging others.  ALL of us are sinners, NONE of us have the right to belittle, humiliate, harrass or put down anyone else.  The way to spread God's love and word is not through hard pressure but, rather, gentle discussion, an offering of sharing and prayer.  Although I don't feel it would be right to report them, I would nicely ask them to stop and to go back and read their Bibles about how it tells us to be Christ's disciples.  God bless you and I pray you will find your faith in your own journey in your time and in your way!  And, by the way, even Jesus has a sense of humor...he has to!  Just because we are Christians doesn't mean we have to be prudes or "serious" all the time.  I can laugh it up with the best of them and Jesus is #1 in my life!
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Anyone who says they aren't a hypocrite is in serious danger of being a hypocrite. I think everyone is probably a hypocrite in some form or another. Whether on religious issues or something else. The way most Christians live their life is very Hippocratic (if that is a word) and are definitely not living how He tells us to. I know I am not living how He tells us to, although I seek to, I don't.
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Oh My!! You confess to the whole church???  Do the people judge you for what sins you have made?? How could I look at the members in the church eye to eye, who have commited serious sins?  I don't think it is meant for us to judge.  How can we not when we hear about members airing their dirty laundry?  I think your sin should be left to God to handle.
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The whole of Galatians is arguing against that line of reasoning - if we sin we disobey God! Christians should obey Him!\n\nGalatians 2:\n16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.\n\n 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. \n\n1 Corinthians 3:\n16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?\n\n 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.\n\nRead 1 Corinthians 5 (see link)\n\n1 Corinthians 6:\n9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,\n\n 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. \n\n1 Corinthians 6:\n15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. \n\n18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.\n\n 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?\n\n 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.\n\netc........\n\n\n>Other than that one, Christians are free to commit as many sins as they want, as often as they want, and any kind they want.<\n\nThe person who wrote that is totally and utterly WRONG!
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There are many who go to church who CLAIM to be a Christian but in reality they have no true relationship with God.  They go because they think they are supposed to, because it looks good, because they are trying to score points, for approval ... etc.\n\nBut as I stated in another post... there will be many who will say "Lord, Lord" and the Lord will say "I know you not".\n\nThat all said, we should be striving to remove sin from our lives.  No one is perfect, true.  But when we are doing something wrong, we need to try and remove that from our life.  Some will successfully, some will fail and try again, and some will never be able to do it.  The point is that God sees the desire of your heart.  So if you are true to your intentions and desires, God will know.\n\nNow if you go to church and you know you shouldn't be sinning, you know that you are sinning by doing {insert action here} and you knowingly disregard any attempt to remove that sin from you life, then you have a problem.\n\nGenerally speaking those who are being hypocritical are either not truly a Christian OR they are blinded by sin in their life and we as brothers and sisters in Christ need to call them on their hypocrisy.
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Well as far as the Bible I read it and I take it literally.  If I don't understand it I read the Strong's concordance. Whether it be in Hebrew or the Arabic translation, I read the translation and then understand it better. As far as the judging part I think we all do it one time of or another. It's wrong and we shouldn't do it, as we know. Being intolerable, again we all are one time or another, even unbelievers.  The ones who don't believe do think and criticize us a lot when we do human things, like judge, intolerance, gossip, or any other sin they can catch us in because it makes them feel better and possibly superior.  If we were perfect, we would be Jesus!
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Odd, isn't it, how Jesus addressed some of these 'sins' and left out others? He talked about adultery (in detail), idolatry, blasphemy, murder and keeping the sabbath, but never got around to the rest... unless, of course, his 'love one another' and 'don't judge' warnings pertained to acceptance of victimless "sins" such as homsexuality. \n\nMany Christians seem to believe that Jesus personally condemned homosexuality, but that came from Paul - who never met Jesus and never discussed law or morality with Jesus. That didn't stop Paul from taking over Christianity and tweaking it to suit his own personal prejudices, e.g. his attitude toward women. \n\nIf Christians are going to follow Paul they should try very hard not to marry, and if they do marry, they should avoid sex if possible, and all these female televangelists should shut up, go home and let their husbands tell them what to do.\n\nHow many Christian women wear make-up, for example? Paul (who hated gays in the NT) wrote:\n\n"I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;...Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." (1 Timothy 2-)\n\nAlso: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church." (1 Cor 34-35)
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You are being judgemental and harsh about Christains when you say that.  You are judging all Christians because of a few, who you don't even know are real Christians, or who may not fully understand Christianity yet.\n\nNeed a nice Christian answer that's biblical?  Plenty of us can do that without being harsh, but sometimes the truth is harsh.  The Bible says on judement day that all those who are not saved will be cast into a lake of fire along with Satan.
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I am a Christian but heard other Christians call non-Christians similar things, including calling them heathens.  It's wrong for Christians to judge.  That's totally up to God.  We should never, ever tell someone they are going to hell.