A really tiny bible study that I did

28 Oct 2007

Luke 6:37-42
Judging Others 37"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
39He also told them this parable: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
41"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? 42How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Where do we draw the line between judging and making a stand? How do you take a stand but not judge? Does tolerance come into the picture as well? How about correcting or giving advice to ppl ard us? Are we allowed to comment?
So on the other hand, God can judge since He is the greatest, most powerful, most knowledgeable and well He is our creator. So since he said that homosexuality cannot be tolerated, are we then allowed to judge that their behavior is intolerable?
For me, I try my best not be too quick to get angry/condemn a person for doing things or choosing to do things in a way that i dont approve. cos there must be a reason that led to the person to do things the way the person did.
sometimes i forget and i start to complain. like today.a person suddenly stormed off during brunch due to something very very small(i feel). but i later found out that somebody else said something not very nice to that person before i was talking to that person. so i guess, any little thing that I did that the person didnt like would ignite That Fire and hence the person stomred off bcos of a really small thing.
see, we never know what the big picture is so dont come up with comclusions so fast! hence, in a way, dont judge. Dont judge others by what you see and what you hear cos there are so many things that you will not see nor hear. I suppose, in a way, give others a chance to live. What we do may not always be the right way. And if ppl do things differently from us, they may not be wrong.
I'm always very hesitant to put such things down in my blog cos no.1, I'm really not gd at this religion thing. Theres still so much about christianity that i dont quite understand. No.2 philo is a huge headache to me. no.3 sometimes my ideas are totally rubbish and off the point.
but well, this is a start i guess...
I'm quite foncused by what I'm writing but WELL. time to go to bed. haha