Strider1002
For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Telling someone that they're sinning and throwing stones are two very different things.
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^I think you may be confusing two different stories, but anyways, there's no reason given to assume that the situation is so black and white. Jesus didn't command either the woman caught in adultery or the woman at the well to make themselves eunuchs. IOW, the situation may not be so stringent so as to force a person into a state of asexuality in order to avoid fornication or adultery.
We're admonished to work out our own salvation and to mind our own business, and there should be no reason to be concerned with anyone's private life (even sins) as long as there is no issue that affects a community like a church. Further, to set one's self up as the inspector or boss of one's neighbor's private parts and sexuality, simply because the bible says such and such, is tantamount to religious molestation, in my opinion.
well that's the difference. People today, to remove accountability, say those kinds of things. "Hey, don't judge me!" or they definitely love the "cast the first stone" approach. But we're not talking about real judgement. Real judgement is if I picked up a literal stone to kill you because of your sin. That is judging you. Not calling one out, not holding someone accountable, not approaching them with love and gentleness and helping them see what they are doing is wrong. That is not judgement.
I don't see the point in being permanently celibate.
I'm not sure what's so wrong with judging anyway? I'm a little rusty on my Bible, but aren't Christians basically encouraged to judge in several different parts of the Bible, in Matthew and Timothy. You judge whether a profit is false by his "fruit", IE bad fruit come from bad trees. You judge whether somebody is preaching words that are not godly or wholesome, and you withdraw yourself.
I mean, I get the social pressure at this point not to judge...But that's basically what you're doing if you've examined somebody's actions or behaviors and determined that they are sinning. You're making a judgement. Whether you act on that judgement and call them out (or cast stones at them) is a different matter.
It sounds like when people say "don't judge me", what they mean is "don't call me out" or "don't criticize me". That's a pretty common thing to say in non-Christian circles too, usually in jest. Do something goofy or weird and "Don't judge me!" interprets to "don't make fun of me!".
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