As a Christian, how important do you think being judgmental, or gossiping or telling of someone is to God?

Being judgmental isn't good, which a lot of Christians seem to be for some reason.

Well, It specifically says in the bible to stay away from people who gossip, judging others is wrong. That's up to God to judge, Not us.

Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and measure you give will be the measure you get. " (Matthew, 7, 1-2).

Well, it doesn't do well for ones integrity or fortitude. It tend to alienate people on both sides. It stirs up strife and contention.It Stunts the maturity level.

It causes war. Houses become divided, not to mention governments, as well.It taints functions and gatherings. It may lead to wrongful convictions.

Just a few points on the subject.Peace.

I am a Christian but I often like to ask Jewish folks about certain things in Judaism because it gives me insight into how Jesus' perspective would have been. After all, he was a Jewish rabbi. He taught Judaism.

On the subject of gossip I have learned that the Jews call this lashon hara or " evil speech". They say that once the damage is done by gossip one can never mend the damage that has been done to another person's character. It is like killing a person in the eyes of others.

They will never again enjoy the same respect or status once this is done. The Jewish folks say that those that practice this will not have a part in the world to come. Gossip is something that really needs to be avoided and we need to be more conscious of what is coming out of our mouths.

Character assassination is a horrible thing and a victim of this often never recovers the damage to his or her reputation. This is consistent with the Bible verse found in Proverbs 18:22, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue. " We need to be more aware of mouth overload and the compulsion to talk about people behind their backs.It is a really serious sin to God.

I have been convicted of this and try to be more aware of my words now. However, I am a work in progress and am working on this.

The Fact that it is spoken of in several Books of the Bible attests to the importance of it. What does the Bible say about gossip? gotquestions.org/gossip-Bible….

We are not perfect we are only human and people make mistakes.

We should be cautious with worldly like confomity as it is sinful. Even when gossip does not take place ..sin manifests as though someone spoke. As the affect took place already.

Typical tactics of false brethren, cults, unsaved, controlling natiions and spirits and groups within nations. For example false bretheren target individuals they choose to control and cause huge problems as they are under another form of lodge, secret society rule and control. So in hiding and using other peoiples sins, and in fact causing harm thereby, unrighteousness is increased .

The motivations of gossip can be as jesus Christ spoke of in parables . " satan cometh immediately ..." These people are often jealous of others as they tend to bias those they do not like and bless there friends and co workers instead of those that deserve it. A thing jacob did a long time ago.

News events are a thing and rumors in business also. News stories abn pay big as advance knowledge is desired to make a story and sell it for publication. Gossip sometimes does harm and is designed to cause disdain for individuals and the gospel message of Jesus christ.

I would think those are things to avoid because judging is usually a way to justify or rationalize ones own actions transference, projection, and you'll see that it becomes harder to avoid once one has the temptation to walk that 'holier than thou' path (I caught myself doing it all the time...the more I catch myself, the more the judgments become less and less significant...pruning the vine as it were) gossiping is one way younger people, and immature adults, rather like myself, one who maybe enjoyed an extended adolescence, bond with others in an insecure environment. The first thing a kid who's scared will do is jump right on the band wagon to dislike someone in common with the peer group he or she is hoping to be excepted by. And what teenager, during the awkward years isn't scared?

Telling someone off? If it's with words, not fists, and after tries with reasoning through example, even admitting ones own follies to get the person to see theirs, if they'll only listen to 'loud' words, the might is right mentality, then sometimes telling someone off can clear the air...as long as its done once, walk away, to avoid it being a "hand over hand up the bat" yelling match to see who wins with nothing but a crowd listening to two blithering idiots yell at each other ...the blithering idiots part? Just about what a friend of mine and I agreed that we must of looked like while we uhh, cleared the air...heh heh... the one thing that I continually keep learning is to not get too critical or too analytical on this road to heaven because it was even written that it will be a childlike walk.

We didn't know what was up when our folks were raising us but we navigated as well as we could with their advice(some got allot, some got a little), and now that we know that there's life forever beyond this one, we're like kids again, not really knowing exactly whats up because of the ambiguity of some passages, but knowing eternity is real and there, well, reliefs will come to you in small and large waves........... probably way more than ya wanted to hear cajun but hey, the second cup o' just kicked in. Heh heh...enjoy.............'m.

Do set a guard, O Jehovah, for my mouth; do set a watch over the door of my lips. ”—PSALM 141:3 Gossip can lead to slander, becoming disastrous to the slanderer. The wisdom of the words at Ecclesiastes 10:12-14 is very evident: “The lips of the stupid one swallow him up.

The start of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end afterward of his mouth is calamitous madness. And the foolish one speaks many words. ” Gossip is talk that reveals something about the doings and the affairs of other URL1 may be unfounded rumor, even a lie, and although the gossiper may not know the untruthfulness of the rumor, he spreads it nevertheless, thereby making himself responsible for propagating a lie.

It may be someone’s faults and mistakes that the gossiper is talking about. But even if the things said are true, the gossiper is in the wrong and reveals lack of love. The proverb says: “The one covering over transgression is seeking love, and he that keeps talking about a matter is separating those familiar with one another.

”—Pr 17:9. While gossip can in some cases be more or less harmless (though it can become slander or lead into it), slander is always damaging and always causes hurt and URL2 may be with or without malicious motive. In either case, the slanderer is putting himself in a bad position before God, for “sending forth contentions among brothers” is among the things that God hates.

(Pr 6:16-19) The Greek word for “slanderer” or “accuser” is di? A? Bo?los.

The word is also used in the Bible as a title of Satan “the Devil,” the great slanderer of God.(Joh 8:44; Re 12:9, 10; Ge 3:2-5) This indicates the source of such defamatory accusation.

SO damaging, no wonder the bible says there will be none of those people having eternal life, because I think that is a curse, an addiction. I actually NEVER did well around people who did that, thus they gossiped and maligned me because I wasn't there to refute it. I see it as 'wolves amongst the sheep', because is it not far more of a 'wolf' trait than something sheep would do?

Somehow sheep seem ...pastoral, and wolves very sneaky, very sly, always looking for advantage, you think so?

With all the crimes, hatreds and other nasty stuff in the world, I would think you can find more important things to worry about.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.