Summary: Christians often say “judge not” to avoid condemning evil, but the Bible calls for judging harmful actions with love. True Christian love means recognizing and calling out wickedness to protect what is good. Avoiding judgment can be a way to escape moral responsibility, but sometimes we must judge to stand against evil.
each and every one of the biblical verses cherry-picked for this hands-off approach when it comes to judging are actually warnings against hypocrisy, not against righteous evaluation of evil and those who commit it. (View Highlight)
To love is to seek to preserve; wickedness always seeks to destroy; therefore wickedness should be called out for what it is: should be judged. Refusal to judge bespeaks an absence of genuine love. (View Highlight)
But most often, I suspect that our pious Christian refusals to judge are actually subterfuges for ducking moral and spiritual responsibility in the face of evil. (View Highlight)