Hi, my name is Father Mike Smith and this is The Centure Presents.

So I'm sure you had this experience where you have some kind of discussion with someone

who's not Catholic or they're not a Christian, maybe they're not even a Theist, maybe they're

an Atheist.

And at some point the topic of morality, issue of morality comes up and you might say,

well, I think that's wrong.

That behavior is wrong.

And someone quotes the favorite quote of the Bible for basically non-bible believing

people is, wait, what about thou shalt not judge?

How about judge not less DB judged?

And that's what Jesus said.

And it's in chapter 7 of Matthew's Gospel.

I'd say, yes, it is in chapter 7 of Matthew's Gospel.

So here's the question.

Can Christians judge?

The answer is kind of complicated because whereas Jesus does command us not to judge,

he also commands us to judge.

Here's what I mean.

When Jesus tells us, again, in chapter 7 of Matthew's Gospel, stop judging less DB judged.

You know, to take the spec out of your eye before you try to take the plank out of your neighbor's

eye, your brother's eye, he's commanding, prohibiting us from judging the heart of a person,

from judging the heart of a person and condemning them, which makes complete sense because we

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