eeps in to the church is when we try to usurp God's position as JUDGE! Can we really know someone's heart? Of course not, yet we sometimes act as if we do.Is it up to us to approve of the people who attend church with us? Jesussaid to the self-righteous religious people of his day:" So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" [John 8:7]Not that we cannot watch people and see the "fruit" their action produce, And make our judgments accordingly; but by doing so we are still attempting tojudge another person's heart.Setting yourself up as a judge is idolatry! Did you ever wonder just how judging was a sin? Think about it! Jesus told us in Mathew 7:1-2:7:1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 7:2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.Think about this the next time that you decide to pass judgment on your fellow human: are you committing idolatry? Are you setting yourself up as God?Joseph Fletcher's ideas have had a devastating impact on America and all Western Society and even on the whole world. It is a philosophy that absolves a person of any accountability of personal responsibility. It is also a philosophy that takes all meaning from life. If there are no standards to which we aspire, why try to climb the ladder to success? Personal achievement, character growth and morality are abandoned and the very fabric of society is torn. If God's laws are not important, how can laws created by humans mean anything.It's a philosophy that, if carried to extremes, will mean the very death of our society....
