Judge not for ye not to be judged?

From my judgement, you obsess too much over what ancient ignorant men wrote.

Good question! I'll try it...but pardon me while I think out loud. I think we get confused about our opinions, our prejudice...and what it means to judge others. All of us have prejudice, and it's not necessarily evil. It comes in many different shapes and sizes, and involves our feeling about things and people. I doubt there is much we can do to change them. Opinions are just what we happen to believe about various subjects and people, and our opinions change with new data. Judgment though, is when we take action...either in word or deed... against someone who we think has violated some rule of conduct associated with our belief system, and we feel it's necessary to step in and take care of it somehow. We will often condemn someone publicly or try to discredit them through gossip or some other means. So in this sense, stating our opinions about someone in a negative manner certainly is judging them, because we are rendering a verdict based on our opinion. Just "having" an opinion, however, is not judging anyone , because you have not rendered a "verdict" by announcing it before the world. Once you speak it...people measure you against the one you are condemning, and if you have problems yourself, you're worse off than if you had kept quiet.

Everyone can have an opinion. Your opinion and mine could be poles apart on any number of subjects. But I think we are told not to judge somebody as that judgement should depend on the law and most of us are not qualified to point the finger and say most definately you are wrong. Also, I think, you can have opinions about a person's behaviour, attitude etc, but the person itself should not be condemned, just the behaviour

If you are stating your oppinion about somebody, you are almost certainly judging them.

Main Entry: 1judge

Pronunciation: 'j&j

Function: verb

Inflected Form(s): judged; judg·ing

Etymology: Middle English juggen, from Old French jugier, from Latin judicare, from judic-, judex judge, from jus right, law + dicere to decide, say -- more at JUST, DICTION

transitive senses

1 : to form an opinion about through careful weighing of evidence and testing of premises

We are not to judge others, but the Bible says, we can go by the fruits that they bear. Read Matthew 7:16-21 This will explain it more.

"Judging our neighbor" is about self-righteous condemnation of someone. It is a "holier than thou" attitude that condescendingly looks down on someone else. While we are not to judge what is in the heart of our fellowman, we should apply discernment concerning their words and actions:

Matthew 7:15-16:

"Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are really wolves that will tear you apart. You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit."

Well, I think that should probably say Condemn Not... How can one get thru life without judging?

That's a very fine line that gets crossed all the time.