{"id":1147,"date":"2008-12-02T08:22:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T08:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2008-12-02T08:22:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T08:22:28","slug":"on-\"thou-shalt-not-judge\"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"On \"Thou Shalt Not Judge\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAn eleventh commandment, as some might call it. But nay, this must not be so. For the warning in Matthew 7:1 is for those who wish to be the light and salt of our Lord to watch themselves, <strong>even more times than others<\/strong>, and keep themselves blameless. It is not &quot;Thou shalt not judge&quot;, but &quot;judge not, that ye be not judged&quot;...expounded a few verses later in verse 5: ...first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, as for those who wish to turn this into a taboo, I must question their motive. Is it because they wish not be embarrassed by anyone of their own mistakes so that they may continue living as sinners?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf we are at fault, nothing else matters except our own embarrassment and confession before our Lord (1Peter 2:20). Let God deal with the sins of the accusers, it is not our business to counter-judge when we ourselves need to repent (1Corinthians 6:7).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eleventh commandment, as some might call it. But nay, this must not be so. For the warning in Matthew 7:1 is for those who wish to be the light and salt of our Lord to watch themselves, even more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1147\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}