Thou Judgeth

By Scott Nesler

Thou shalt not judge is a judgment.   We all do it whether it is for better or for worse from intelligence or from ignorance.

The Bible - Matthew 7:1-5

Judge not, that you be not judged.   For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.  Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

The Bible - Proverbs 31:9

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. 

The Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:15

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

Whether it is true or not the concept of a judgement day is imaginable. If there was a Do Good Gauge to score this judgment, would it be possible to replicate its function by mere mortals? Could not this gauge motivate competition for a higher level of good?

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"The Sound of Silence"

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. -- Vaclav Havel

 

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