People aren't judged. Actions are judged; people are rewarded,
punished, or condemned. Every morally upright person has a right to judge his
or her actions and the actions of those around them as right or wrong. But no
one has the right to condemn another person.
First, let's not confuse punishment with
condemnation. Punishment is "the state of being made
to suffer for wrongdoing." I think the best example of this is spanking a
disobedient child. When I disobeyed my mother, she spanked me so I would know
there is a consequence for misbehaving. This is justice. It would not have been
just if she told me "You're going to hell" every time I did something
wrong. That is condemnation.
To condemn means "to declare to be
reprehensible, wrong, or evil usually after weighing evidence and without
reservation." When a person condemns another, they are making a statement
about the whole person: "Charles Manson is evil." When people say,
"Don't judge me," they mean "Don't condemn me." This is a
legitimate request - I cannot declare anyone to be completely evil, because I
can only know their actions and what they choose to tell me about what they
were thinking when they performed those actions. I can never know the entire
character of the person, because I cannot be them.
I cannot look into their soul and see if they have any goodness in their heart.
I cannot perform any scientific tests to prove their moral character. Only God
knows the soul, therefore, only God has a right to condemn.
Man tends to play God when he has too much
power. This is dangerous, because man is not God - and he will never be as
perfect as God. But man's power has been increasing with technology, so much so
to where he has given himself the power of determining his own moral truths.
When man ceases to follow natural law, he is bound to an abuse of power.
We see this today in what is called
"cyber bullying." This destructive behavior has been enabled by social media, which has given every man the power to communicate his
thoughts to another person instantaneously, no matter the distance. Man is
removed from accountability, because he can silence those who would call on his
conscience by simply "deleting" them. This makes him feel as if he
were annihilating that person (which even God would not do), when really he is
only removing them from his life - without bearing the consequences of the hurt
he is causing them.
Man is seeking to throw off the cross of
responsibility and increase his power to be the
only master of his life - he is becoming Satanic. Cyber bullying is one of many
atrocities that have come about in this new age of man. This kind of demonic activity must be rebuked and put to an end.
And it must be done by those of us who are willing to fight for the dignity of
our brethren.
No man has the right to condemn a man to
death. No man (or woman) has the right to abort the lives of unborn babies. And
no one has the right to tell my brother to "kill himself." The
Hebrews of the Old Testament were criticized for public stoning. But we are
worse today. Instead of throwing stones than harm the body, we throw hateful words that harm the soul.
"Let the one among you who is without
sin be the first to throw a stone at her." . . . Then Jesus straightened
up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned
you?" She replied, "No one, sir." Then Jesus said, "Neither
do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more." -John 8:7,10-11
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