![]() ![]() In the scenario above, the man stealing the groceries may be desperate for food for his starving children. If you see a man snatch some groceries off a shelf and run out a store with a clerk yelling after him, you can know a wrong action has been done. In the case of an action, we can see what people do, we know right from wrong. ![]() The key here is to understand the difference between judging actions and judging motives. A judgment is simply a decision based on facts. How can one conclude that another has trespassed against him unless he judges the action? It helps to understand that just to make a choice is a judgment. “Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.” (Matt 18:15) But don’t we judge others all the time that is, judge their actions, words, appearance etc? Here is a verse that clearly indicates the possibility of us judging the actions of others: That verse seems to be saying that if we do not judge others we will not be judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” (Matt 7:1-2) Isn’t that somewhat confusing? Then there is a passage suggesting that one can escape judgment altogether: ![]() “In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.” (Rom 2:16) “For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” (Eccl 12:14) If the Father does not judge and the Son does not judge, who will we be judged by? Doesn’t scripture speak of a coming judgment? In that verse, Jesus said that He does not judge. “Ye judge after the flesh I judge no man.” (John 8:15) Yet, later in John’s gospel, Jesus, speaking of Himself, said: That makes it sound like it is the Son Who will be doing the judging. “For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:” (John 5:22) Does God judge in the sense of deciding who He will allow into heaven and who He will leave out? There is a verse that seems to answer that directly: ![]()
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