"The Idea we Are Not to Judge at all is a Lie": "The Idea we Are Not to Judge is a Doctrine of Demons... St. Paul Instructs us to Judge"
By Richard Salbato
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with
the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give
will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck that is in your
brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own…" Matthew
7:1-3
This is the most quoted passage for people who believe we
should all be nice and kind to all people’s opinions, beliefs, politics
and life styles. Of course, Satan is a master of Scripture and used true
Scripture to tempt Christ in the desert. This is because Satan likes
to take things out of context to corrupt the meaning of it. When you
take the entire bible in its simplicity, you will see what Christ really
means in the passage above.
In Matthew 7 we see how we are not
to judge. We are never to condemn anyone to Hell. Not even the Church
ever pronounces anyone in Hell. We are also never to use a
double-standard, judging one person by one set of standards and another,
even ourselves, with different standards. This is hypocrisy. Taking
the speck out of our brother’s eye is not condemned in itself.
Hypocritical judgment is what Jesus condemns. We must judge ourselves
in the same way we judge the actions of everyone.
The idea we
are not to judge at all is a lie. We cannot judge a person’s state of
soul or his motives, that is true. We are not to judge out of hypocrisy
– a double standard. We are, however, to make proper judgments (borne
out of love) to admonish a sinner in order to encourage him to
repentance. That is the goal, to save the sinner’s soul, to lead him to
repentance. How can we change what we do not judge.
We are to
make judgments of behavior, attitudes, and ideas in order to protect our
loved-ones and ourselves from danger. People who practice dangerous and
sinful behaviors, or have dangerous attitudes and ideas, we are to
avoid. We cannot avoid them until and unless a judgment has been made
that such people are of the type the Bible tells us to avoid.
The idea we are not to judge is a doctrine of demons.
Satan
would love us to avoid making judgments. If he can convince us of this,
sin can abound without criticism, and we could continue in our sin
without accountability. Then the philosophies of Satan can contaminate
all of us with impunity unchecked and unchallenged.
St. Paul instructs us to judge:
I
charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge
the living and the dead,… preach the word, be urgent in season and out
of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in
teaching. For a time is coming when people will not endure sound
teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves
teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to
the truth and wander into myths.—2 Timothy 4:2-4
Who are these
teachers Saint Paul is referring to, who turn people away from truth?
Today, we find them in the philosophies of Humanism and Modernism, and
infiltrated into the Catholic Churches.
In the modern world
starting with the French Revolution, which preached liberty from faith
and morals, even marriage, Modernism has the demonic philosophy that all
ideas have equal value and no one should be challenged for holding a
view that is contrary to human logic and reasoning.
When
between 1910 and 1920 the Catholic Monarchies fell to secularism, even
the bishops and priests started to cave into this idea of freedom of
conscience even from the teachings of the Church on faith and morals.
The one most responsible for introducing this false philosophy into the
Church was the Catholic theologian, Jacques Maritain. This was about
the same time as the rise of secularism and the republics in Europe,
around 1920.
Maritain’s “Integral Humanism” was so eminently
acceptable to prelates anxious to appease Caesar that it could not fail
to be accepted.
Maritain explains that integral humanism “...is
a universal fraternity of men of good will belonging to different
religions or none (including even those who reject the idea of the
Creator). It is within this fraternity that the Church should exercise a
leavening influence without imposing itself and without demanding that
it be recognized as the one true Church. The cement of this fraternity
is the virtue of doing good, and understanding grounded in respect for
human dignity.’
This idea of universal fraternity was neither
original nor new, because as stated above, it was already advanced by
the philosophers of the Revolutionaries of 1789. It is also the
fraternity beloved of freemasonry and even of the Marxists.
Maritain said:
“Within
this “universal fraternity”, the Church must be neither intransigent
nor authoritarian. She must know how to make religion acceptable. And so
that the truths of faith and morality may be acceptable, Christianity
must be practical rather than dogmatic.’
Pope Pius XI fought
against this humanism, whereas Pope Paul VI was an admirer of Jacques
Maritain. It is from this admiration and influence that Paul VI leaned
over backwards to see things in the anti-Christian world’s perspective
and unhesitatingly accepted the terms of reference upon which Jacobins,
Freemasons, Marxists - the enemies of the Church – had hitherto been
insisting. He maintained the faith of Peter but made no preeminent
place for Peter’s faith over other opinions.
As a result,
Vatican II held to the faith of Peter, but the so-called “Spirit of
Vatican II” corrupted truth and morals into just the opinion of each and
every individual.
Never Condone Error
Error is never on
the same level of dignity with Truth. But if we are not confronted in
our error, how can we be motivated to move toward Truth? If we do not
challenge error, we condone and tolerate it. What we condone and
tolerate, we cannot change. We are especially to judge the teaching of
teachers, publishers and leaders because if we don’t, then we allow sin
and Satan to exploit the weak and ignorant and vulnerable with his lies.
The
Catechism of the Catholic Church states (No 1868): "… we have a
responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in
them: by (among several actions on our part) not disclosing or not
hindering them when we have an obligation to do so."
In other
words, we become a part of the sin that we cooperate with even in our
silence. We cannot "disclose" a sin without first assessing (yet
another word for judging) that the sin is in fact there in the first
place.
Who am I to judge? Well, I know I judge correctly only
if my judgment is the echo of the Church. In other matters, I must rely
on an educated logical mind because some things are self evident, like
the very existence of a God.
In matters of faith and morals, we
must submit our opinion to the Church because Christ gave the Church the
authority to guard His Truth. The Church is the "pillar and bulwark
[foundation] of truth" as St. Paul tells us in 1 Timothy 3:15.
One
of the Spiritual Works of Mercy is to "Admonish the sinner." How can
we admonish the sinner, if we do not first judge it to be a sin? We are
not judging the person, but we are judging his actions to be sinful –
not his motives, but his actions.
Truth cannot be
compromised—even if it makes enemies of our relatives. Some people will
not accept the truth and will hate those who preach it. Truth demands
judgment. If we see sin or error, we must call it for what it is.
Be Nice
If
all is equal there can be no value distinctions, only different but
equal assertions that have equal validity. Insisting that we all be
nice to each other does this. This "niceness," of course, is a mask for
obfuscating the truth.
The word, "nice", in this context means a
civility that demands "agreeable" demeanor even at the compromise of
truth. It is better to be agreeable than it is to tell the truth. And
with this value of agreeableness, error goes unchallenged and truth
obfuscated.
Jesus is seen as a 60’s flower-child type person
who is a mild mannered milquetoast, gentle as a lamb, always agreeable
and never harsh. This image of Jesus is a demonic lie. It is a
delusion. It is a delusion because the Scriptural evidence does not
support this image as the "exclusive" way in which Jesus conducted
himself, yet despite the clear record of Scripture, people insist upon
the milquetoast image.
Not So Nice Scripture
Jesus never
compromised truth for niceness and cordiality: Matthew 3, 7, 10,12, and
23 use words like division, swine, cast off, brood of vipers, hypocrite,
etc.
In addition, His apostles preaching His teaching
instructs us to not associate with those calling themselves Christian
but living a life of sin (1 Corinthians 5). Scripture also tells us to
avoid certain people who pretend to be religion but who deny its power
(2 Timothy 3), to shun heretics and divisive people (Titus 3), and even
to hand unrepentant sinners over to Satan (1 Corinthians 5).
All
these things require judgments to be made. When confronted with the
situation that warrants it, the teachings of Jesus fly in the face of
niceness. The teachings of Christ step on toes.
Christ calls us to truth, even when it hurts.
To
know that we are to judge and how we are to judge, we must look to
other passages. In Titus 3:9-11 we read: "perverted and sinful; he is
self-condemned." We don’t condemn him, he condemns himself, but we do
judge him to be divisive beyond tolerance because we tried to admonish
him (judge his behavior and warn him of his sin) twice but he would not
repent.
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 Do not associate with people calling
themselves Christians who are "guilty of immorality or greed, or is an
idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber—not even to eat with such a one."
Then Paul verse 12 "Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside."
St.
Paul also tells us in 2 Timothy 3:1-9 that we are to avoid people who
are "holding to a form of religion but denying the power of it" (e.g.,
liberals who strip our Church of its sacramental power). Others we are
to avoid include those who are "Lovers of self, lovers of money, proud,
arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good,
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather
than lovers of God…". How do we avoid them if we do not judge their
actions to be sinful.
And finally, St. Paul tells us in 1
Corinthians 5:1-5 that some people must be excommunicated—completely
removed from fellowship and handed over to Satan. Paul specifically
says, "I have already pronounced judgment in the name of the Lord Jesus
on the man who has done such a thing… you are to deliver this man to
Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his spirit may be saved in
the day of the Lord Jesus."
Objective and fundamental truths are
either true or they are not; they cannot be both true and untrue at the
same time. Thus we must rely not upon our own understanding, but upon
God who understands all: “Do not rely on your own insight
[understanding]. Be not wise in your own eye." —Proverbs 3:5-7 “[God];
he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.—Job 37:24;
38:1-5a, 17-18; 38:33; 39:26
O Timothy, guard what has been
entrusted to you. Avoid the godless chatter and contradictions of what
is falsely called knowledge, for by professing it some have missed the
mark as regards the faith —1 Timothy 6:20-21
St. Paul declares:
For
though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war, for
the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to
destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to
the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is
complete. … But we will not boast beyond limit, but will keep to the
limits God has apportioned us…" 2 Corinthians 10:3-6, 13a
St. Paul teaches us:
For
there are many insubordinate men, empty talker and deceivers…they must
be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for
base gain what they have no right to teach... therefore rebuke them
sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, instead of giving heed to
Jewish myths or to commands of men who reject the truth.—Titus 1:13
I
charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge
the living and the dead,… preach the word, be urgent in season and out
of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in
teaching. For a time is coming when people will not endure sound
teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves
teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to
the truth and wander into myths.—2 Timothy 4:2-4 “
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