Thursday, February 5, 2009
Judgement
Okay, so I want to discuss verses 1-16 of Romans 2. I have read this several times, and I get bogged down by the first few verses and all the judgement stuff. So, what I need to know is: what is judgement? What does it mean to judge someone else? I'm pretty sure I'm judgemental of others, but it is a hard concept for me to understand because it seems to me that so many other Christians are judgemental, also (I know that's an excuse, and probably a judgmental statement, too). I guess I don't have an example of someone who doesn't judge others, or maybe I do, I just don't know it. So, if someone could tell me what it means to judge others, I think that will help me understand this chapter.
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Here is what my little black friend Webster says.
judgement:
1 a: a formal utterance of an authoritative opinion b: an opinion so pronounced
2 a: a formal decision given by a court b (1): an obligation (as a debt) created by the decree of a court (2): a certificate evidencing such a decree
3 acapitalized : the final judging of humankind by God b: a divine sentence or decision ; specifically : a calamity held to be sent by God
4 a: the process of forming an opinion or evaluation by discerning and comparing b: an opinion or estimate so formed
5 a: the capacity for judging : discernment b: the exercise of this capacity
6: a proposition stating something believed or asserted
judge:
transitive verb
1: to form an opinion about through careful weighing of evidence and testing of premises
2: to sit in judgment on : try
3: to determine or pronounce after inquiry and deliberation
4: govern , rule —used of a Hebrew tribal leader
5: to form an estimate or evaluation of ; especially : to form a negative opinion about shouldn't judge him because of his accent
6: to hold as an opinion : guess , think, I judge she knew what she was doing
intransitive verb
1: to form an opinion
2: to decide as a judge
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