Yes, you are following what you percieve is a directive to judge.
But you are still making judgement calls.
You can try all you like to butter it up, but you are still judging your fellow Christians and ranking them according to how well you think they are stacking up.
There is no sin in judging others so long as you use the same standard for all, including yourself.
2 COR 14
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[
a]?
Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16
What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them
and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”[
b]
17 Therefore,
“Come out from them
and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you.”[
c]
18 And,
“I will be a Father to you,
and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”[
d]
Matthew 7 1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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(I pull my planks all the time because I can see them.)
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15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
True and False Disciples
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day,
‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
John 15:
1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunesa so that it will be even more fruitful. 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.
8This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
I follow the Bible. As I have said I am no better but when I see it I fix it. I know and admit my wrong doing these people I speak of will not acknowledge wrong doing and will continue even under council. If I tell someone st stop having sex in the parking lot of the Church or leave until such time that they have changed their ways I have not done anything that I am not commanded to do.
Many do not comprehend the difference between judging and casting out. If you came into my church and started talking to my daughter contrary to the teachings of the Bible which you either clearly do not understand or simply like to twist I would ask you to leave the house of the Father. I have not judged I have discriminated. If I tell you you are going to hell because of it I have Judged.
I also would not have a person like you in my peer group. I would socialize with you if we worked together or saw each other somewhere and would invite you to my home for a discussion but we could never have a true friendship so I would not have you around my family for extended periods of time. There again I am also sure you are only this way on this forum and are probably a great person and unless I actually asked or we had a conversation about Church I probably would never know unless you were a pig of one sort or another trampling all over my faith.
