@Jehanne no it doesn't. Do you also just do a plain textual reading of the verses I quoted and come up with, "be judgy to others people"?
@Gae Bolga - I didn't say it doesn't happen, just that it's not taught. I'm painfully aware that it's practiced in people's lives. I've never heard a sermon or class or many differing denominations that told us to judge and condemn other people, and if I did I would probably leave mid sentence. judgement shouldn't be divorced from Christianity as it is an integral part, but it's who's to judge that is important.
If I had met and discussed things with the ex-pastor in question, I'd have sympathized. I would have carefully had him reconsider calling himself a Christian if he's been faking it all his life. If I had met his younger self that had questions but didn't live a fake life, I would have talked about Romans 14:1-13
1 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
If you're living a genuine life and true to yourself and others, and don't believe, then you're an unbeliever. If you're living a genuine life and true to yourself and others, and do believe and try to have a relationship with God following Christ then you're a Christian. That seems like the most fitting definition.
@Gae Bolga - I didn't say it doesn't happen, just that it's not taught. I'm painfully aware that it's practiced in people's lives. I've never heard a sermon or class or many differing denominations that told us to judge and condemn other people, and if I did I would probably leave mid sentence. judgement shouldn't be divorced from Christianity as it is an integral part, but it's who's to judge that is important.
If I had met and discussed things with the ex-pastor in question, I'd have sympathized. I would have carefully had him reconsider calling himself a Christian if he's been faking it all his life. If I had met his younger self that had questions but didn't live a fake life, I would have talked about Romans 14:1-13
1 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
If you're living a genuine life and true to yourself and others, and don't believe, then you're an unbeliever. If you're living a genuine life and true to yourself and others, and do believe and try to have a relationship with God following Christ then you're a Christian. That seems like the most fitting definition.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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