Catholic Exchange

Thank you, thank you for making the distinction. God is a God of Love and Justice! Without true Justice there can be no true Love. Who are we to judge? God tells us to judge with a righteous judgment. I think people confuse the judgment of appearances “do not judge” – the speck and log in the eye as spoken of in Matthew 7, with the “righteous judgment” Christ tells us to do in John 7. There is judgment by “appearances” and then there is the “righteous judgment” that Christ tells us to do.

Matthew 7:1 “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2 “For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

John 7:24 “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”