maybe it's this...

Okay I won’t keep talking about Pharisees vs Jesus but like I already said, this kind of stuff gets in my head pretty easily and I really want some kind of “grasp” on it.

Which I think I got while falling asleep last night.

Jesus judged “Pharisees” - not “Steve”, “Debbie,”, or “Justin”. It was a group, a system, a structure, a way of doing things.

The Pharisees judged Jesus, that woman caught in adultery, this tax collector,

I’m long past reading the Bible very literally (when I read it) so my take is this:

It’s much better to judge systems and structures and religions, rather than the people they make.

More empathy to individuals and more judgement for systems.

Tear down the systems, build up the human.

I can live with that.

(Comments are on now - sorry about that.)