Analyzing everything someone says to be able to find the flaws in them is a sign of jealousy and insecurity.
Many people in our culture love to judge people on insignificant things that don't matter or are merely a difference in their personal preference while assigning a wrong motive or action to it that did not exist.
There was gossip in the family about my personal taste and those who were gossiping were treating me disrespectfully for my personal taste. There is nothing sinful or wrong about my taste it is just different from what other people do.
When we cannot appreciate the differences in others that are not sin, even making up excuses through guessing what they are doing without evidence then we are sinning. God clearly says to show love to one another. Love involves accepting differences and even appreciating them when there is no sin involved.
1 Corinthians 13:4–7
"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
I can understand this concept of loving people who are different from me because I enjoy diversity in all kinds of things.
It has been my experience that those who isolate themselves, surrounding themselves only with people who think the way they think have caused emotional immaturity and pride in their members.
Those who try to recreate the perfect environment according to their own taste are likely to become insecure with an attitude of superiority. They gossip against others and fight with others on the basis of personality and personal taste rather than important sin matters.
In fact, these people often accept sin in those who have their same personal interests, the sin doesn't matter very much as long as they like the same things and activities.
It is my opinion that those who love to judge others on silly things have a problem with jealousy. Rather than addressing their jealousy they concoct in their mind a reason to disrespect and even hate those who are different from them. This is the basis for prejudice, but the prejudice is not based on sin, but on superficial things that are not sin. such as personal appearance, financial success, and people groups.
Worldly people tend to camp on things that don't matter while ignoring sin issues that offend God.
When we love Christ we do not notice the unimportant things as much. We may notice differences but have no judgment about them because they are not important.
Many years ago a mentally challenged man had placed porn on the walls in his bedroom. His brother who was a Chrsitian challenged him that it was disrespectful of women and that he should not be having those pictures. The family of the mentally challenged man became angry with the Christian because he had influenced the mentally challenged brother to remove the pictures. Rather than supporting the influence of the righteous man this family came against him. Because of the lack of support for the righteous man the mentally challenged man went with the influence of the group and put his pictures back up at their insistence that he should do whatever he wants.
What was amazing to me is that this family who came against the Christian man were Catholics. They endorsed the mentality that if someone wants it they should have it, without regard to the emotional and mental damage this filthy stuff causes not only in the man who lived in the room but anyone else who entered the room.
And yet, this Catholic family gossiped and maligned the Christian man for his activities in the pro-life movement. Can we see the double standard here, the man with the porn should not be told he is wrong and should make a change but the man who was against killing babies should be persecuted for his standard.
This family had a Bible in their home that no one read. It was an heirloom to be kissed on the outside and ignore whatever was in it, a sort of amulet that brought good luck by having it but knowing it was for the priests.
This family didn't go to the Bible for answers to life problems they went to the priest and often received bad advice. It was a priest that told the mother of the mentally challenged man to allow him to keep the porn on the walls because it filled a void in the man that could not be filled with women.
I was astounded at this wicked advice since it is good old-fashioned horse sense that porn insights rather than diminishes drives in men. The advice of the priest was against God's Word because it matched up with psychological standards devised by men.
Is it any wonder why our culture has gone down the wide road to perdition when the advice that is given by "clergy" is against the Word of God?
When outer appearances and acceptance of others become more important than Christ and His Word we have lost the country to hedonism. When we reach this point there is no return, we will be and are under judgment right now and most do not recognize it.
Romans 1:18-32
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ."
Unbelievers are jealous of the love and confidence of born-again believers. In their heart of hearts they know we have the truth and are offended by that alone. They are offended by Christ because they love their sinfulness.
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