11-01-2024, 09:37 AM
(11-01-2024, 07:42 AM)Maxmars Wrote: I'm certainly no religious scholar myself; but I feel the admonishment you mention is about condemnation, not hypocrisy.
Flaws and problem do not solve themselves... they are distributed around the human world without exception... 'condemnation' is unnecessary because there is, in the Biblical sense, no judge other than God. And no one person can be said to be "in a position to judge" anyone from the perspective of purity of intent, freedom from bias, and unfettered understanding.
Removing the "plank out of your own eye" is not about becoming worthy to judge... it's about how ultimately no one is, or can be, that worthy... which the faithful must acknowledge and internalize; lest condemnation be perverted into a social 'show thing'... (like it is with politicians, and other global celebrities...)
Funny that "hypocrisy" is a condemnation... kind of ironic, no?
I think you are right and I am wrong Max.
I can't judge anyone.
I think I'm better sticking to being a pretend poet!