Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged

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  Posted By: Phishmelt @ 08/13/2008 9:50:34 PM

  yes, love edwards. he dumped on hillary knowing he was likely to get caught and bring the whole democratic party down. so he wasn' really trying to win the nomination. The poverty czar position obama offered him got him to do everything he could to go against clinton.
  Hey, he threw the first stone.
  PUMA

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  Posted By: jtwardmo @ 08/12/2008 11:22:16 PM

  First of all, no person can "condemn" John and Elizabeth Edwards. Some may believe they can, but only God can "condemn".
  Hopefully, many will recognize that what John did in adultery is wrong as such an action is wrong for everyone whether they believe it is or not.
  (I do not know what Elizabeth did and cannot comment. on her.)
  
  There are several verses in Scripture that a large number of people use out of context.
  Ephesians 5:22 is the classic example: "'Wives, sumbit yourselves unto your husbands as unto the Lord."
  But, husbands who seek to abuse their wives using this verse are ignoring Ephesians 5:21 ("submit one to another") and Ephesians 5:25 ("Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it.") Note: As I am not looking at the Bible while typing, I may be off by a word. But, the context is correct.
  
  Matthew 7:1 is where Jesus stated "Judge not, lest ye be judged" (KJV). Did He mean that we should allow people to murder others and not arrest them? ("Judge not") Did He mean that we should regard adultery as a regular activity and not think that it is wrong? ("Judge not") Let's go farther than that. Did He mean that we should never eat a meal and judge it to taste good or never judge a dish which smells unusual may be dangerous to eat and throw it out for safety or never judge one item on sale would be a good purchase.
  
  We must remember that most who work in the media (including magazines like Newsweek) have a viewpoint in life that is different from that of those who are conservative. Many have not even been planted, much less watered and harvested. Those of us who are part of the Bride of Christ need to reach out to those who look at life differently and try to help them in beginning to grow and find Life.
  

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  Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 08/10/2008 4:58:37 PM

  Give it a rest Alter.[again,as I nailed you on this back when the original article was published,thus this is also a reprise]. You have no business jumping up on a secular highhorse[while quoting Biblical verse as the title from the Book of Matthew displays],when vintage Alter,in another presidency[GHW Bush],in another suspicion[not a fact of],adultery, in defending his line of questions, showed us this:
  
  Remarks,Jon Alter of NEWSWEAK,Aug.12,1992,NIGHTLINE[ABC News]:
  
  ''The President is a candidate,and he has to be asked tough,often distasteful questions,but nonetheless important questions''.
  
  It is exactly DUE to the fact that the partisan Alter,NEWSWEAK,AP,NY Times,LA Times,and others checked out of the reporting business because their boy was a liberal Democrat,and not a conservative Republican,that the National Enquirer,of all papers,picked up the baton and carried it over the tape,leaving the MSM in the dust.[the ''downfall''of the old media,as the lame mea culpa in Fridays LA Times put it].
  
  Of course,Alter has a proven trackrecord of ''judging''nearly everyone if the person is a conservative or mucking up the joint with distasteful lawsuits,such as his treatment of Justice Thomas in 1991 and Paula Jones displayed. [muttering in an interview with Brian Williams of MSNBC on April 01,1998 ,Alter steers away from the Jones-Clinton affair and goes ad hominum,joining Jimmy Carville in the ''trailer trash'' Dept. by observing that Jones would be a fit candidate for one of ''Jeff Foxworthys redneck sitcoms''].
  We don't like cancer. No-one does. But we don't like highhanded hypocrisy either, whether it comes from an Alter, [a Gingrich even], or from an Edwards,who has made such secular pontifications a cornerstone of his late candidacy for the presidency. Bear in mind that your dilatory response to the Edwards adultery,[speaking of the August 2008 Alter and NEWSWEAK],already widely viewed by Americans in having a partisan impetus of non-scrutiny,and then issuing this ''Everyone Get Along''crap after the dross dealt upon the Craigs,Lotts,Thomas', Bush 1s,and Starrs of the world,generates the very judgment you seek to avoid. Quit acting like a partisan PRAVDA,and perhaps the low esteem in which your vocation is held by Americans may yet see a day in which it will again rise.
  
  ''A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant,more ignorant. And the crazy,more crazier''
  
  H.L.Mencken.