Making judgments is part of life. If I saw a man strewn out on the park bench day after day with a liquor bottle in his hand I would judge him to be an alcoholic with maybe no place to stay. If I saw a girl, dressed in a less than acceptable way, standing on a street corner late at night trying to solicit men I would judge her to be a "working woman."
These would be making "right" or "logical" judgments. We make judgments like this every single day. These judgment calls can help us in making decisions on whether to help or walk away.
From a Christian POV it's not about making judgments it's about making right judgments. There is such a thing as judging wrongly. It's about judging others with hypocrisy and/or malice. That's wrong. How can I judge someone in a critical or malicious way when I'm just as guilty?
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