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Rom.2:1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Can a person judge without condemning themselves, is Paul's words here a lie? This is a very powerful thought, but yet, few if any Christian's takes it very seriously, but why? Well, its simple, they read the rest of this verse thinking if they uses God's word the bible they are authorized by God to judge others, but is this the context of what Paul was even writing about?

James 4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

In fact, shockingly, some Christian's really believe the highest moral standard of God's word is their judging others harshly. The context of Paul entire letter of the Roman's is one point, which is, the Old Covenant verses the power of the New Covenant. Don't be fooled and get off track, or a person will end up in all kinds of false reasoning and judgments towards others.

Galatians 5:9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

What stops a person from practicing sin? If you can answer this simple question the rest of the book of Roman's will be unlocked? First, under the old covenant it was blood setting a person right for being a sinner against what? The law of God. Once again don't be fooled here no one, who is a sinner can keep God's law, they must have innocent blood atoning for their sin rather they live long or short.
Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Did that blood of animals still exist for God's people at Paul's writing here, no! The blood of animals was set aside upon Christ death and resurrection it was no longer enforced or accepted by YHWH. Stop and think! If a person stayed under the old law, or covenant without blood, they could not stop sinning because they had no atonement for sin by blood of animals any more. Hence, they were factually a “practicer of sin”!

Now read Paul's words again about judging and practicing sin according to this context and you will understand what judging he was speak too.

Romans 2:13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified.

The problem for Christian's is they have an amalgamation of two laws although adamantly deny using both the old and new covenant to judge others by. Here than is another key to God's word, yeast of old covenant effecting the teachings of the new covenant. In other words, a person could not have a little of both forgiveness of sin under Christ blood, and judgment of the old law under the blood of animals.

The two cannot mix, but it very deceiving for most Christian's, but why? Paul in the letters to Romans is going to explain why thoroughly, why the judgment of law is dead in our flesh, and the judgment of our spirit is found in the law of love. The early Jewish Christian's had a very difficult time with this thought, being set upon thousand's of years of judgment by law. Christian's today have a difficult time with two-thousands years since Christ and false religion permeating the whole lump with yeast of the old covenant into the new covenant making the kingdom of God on earth a yeast kingdom.

James. 2:7 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? 2:8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself,"{Leviticus 19:18} you do well. 2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. 2:11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery,"{Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18} also said, "Do not commit murder."{Exodus 10:13; Deuteronomy 5:17} Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 2:12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

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