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Not interested in getting into a theology debate but there are countless examples of "judging others" in the NT.
Can you post some of them?
As far as not judging others, it is clearly a Christian precept.
Matthew 7
1 "Do not judge, lest you may be judged,
2 for with what judgment you are judging, shall you be judged, and with what measure you are measuring, shall it be measured to you.
Luke 6
37 And be not judging, and under no circumstances may you be judged; and be not convicting, and under no circumstances may you be convicted; be releasing, and you shall be released
To say nothing of the obvious calls for the killing and execution of idolators and sinners in the OT. And both the NT and OT make up the book known as the bible - and considered wholly inspired - by evangelical Christians.
Those killings were done under an old Covenant, which has long passed.
Hebrews 8
6 Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted through better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one.
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13 In speaking of “a new covenant,” he has made the first one obsolete. And what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.
Let's put it this way... If you had walked into a 1st century church gathering, made up of some people who actually knew Jesus in the flesh, and told everyone that you were a proud homosexual, the response you got would have been a lot more "Westboro" than "Pelosi".
Perhaps, but should we judge a religion according to the cultural mores of the wider society within which its contemporary self-proclaimed adherents reside? Or according to the actual content of its holy books?:wink: