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**acceraStoof** · 11-05-2007, 01:14 AM

I think the issue for many is the word judge. It conjures up in the mind an image of a man in black robes pronouncing a sentence on a criminal. At the end of a man's life he will be judged by God Himself, this is for certain! (and this id the judging that we are warned not to do!) We are not to look at someone and condemn them as a bad person deserving of hell. However it is just foolishness to think that you can look at "any" situation and not "see" the right or the wrong of it! You know because of your own conscience if someone is doing right or wrong! We "must" see the truth and then leave the judging to God. We are allowed to pray for such a one however! Perhaps pray that The Lord will open their eyes! Pray that they will come to their senses! Pray that God will forgive their sins and at the same time know that we ourselves are filled with sin and passions Kyrie Eleision!

InXC,
Seraphim

Yes, a very good post, James. Your words have made things clearer in my mind. Thank you! Nina referred to Elder Paisios in her message and I also remember this remark in one of the many books I have about him. What kind of man would say something like this? Only a very holy man. He asked God to take days from his own life and give them to someone he disapproved of, with the sole purpose of allowing this man more time to repent. He didn't close his eyes to the man's faults, he didn't tell himself that the man was OK and everything he knew was just his imagination, instead he felt love and pity for him in spite of his knowledge.

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acceraStoof Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 516 Senior Member	I think the issue for many is the word judge. It conjures up in the mind an image of a man in black robes pronouncing a sentence on a criminal. At the end of a man's life he will be judged by God Himself, this is for certain! (and this id the judging that we are warned not to do!) We are not to look at someone and condemn them as a bad person deserving of hell. However it is just foolishness to think that you can look at "any" situation and not "see" the right or the wrong of it! You know because of your own conscience if someone is doing right or wrong! We "must" see the truth and then leave the judging to God. We are allowed to pray for such a one however! Perhaps pray that The Lord will open their eyes! Pray that they will come to their senses! Pray that God will forgive their sins and at the same time know that we ourselves are filled with sin and passions Kyrie Eleision! InXC, Seraphim Yes, a very good post, James. Your words have made things clearer in my mind. Thank you! Nina referred to Elder Paisios in her message and I also remember this remark in one of the many books I have about him. What kind of man would say something like this? Only a very holy man. He asked God to take days from his own life and give them to someone he disapproved of, with the sole purpose of allowing this man more time to repent. He didn't close his eyes to the man's faults, he didn't tell himself that the man was OK and everything he knew was just his imagination, instead he felt love and pity for him in spite of his knowledge.
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