If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture?

We hear it everywhere: "Don't judge." It is quoted as if it were the whole of Christianity in a single sentence. Yet Scripture speaks far more deeply-and far more carefully-about judgment than our slogans ever do. The Bible warns against a kind of judgment that tries to sit in God's seat, and it also commands a kind of judgment without which love, truth, and even sanity collapse. Every day you and I make judgments about people, ideas, sins, motives, and eternal things-often without realizin...