There I was singing karaoke with my sister singing too and my mother was there. It was after an online church service we attended today and it was a lot of fun! My sister and I love our mother still. We forgive her. That's why we were hugging her, telling her how much we care for her. The server quote I mentioned yesterday happened already in the past. I vented, my sister vented. It's done. It's toxic to hold on to grudges.
So today, Oct 22 2023 Sunday my mother has once again asked me to talk to who she calls my "Discord friends" about our family situation. Both my sister and my mother are my very close friends, it's been this way for years. When one friend is hurting another friend, it's necessary to help stop that hurtful behavior. Because my mother is hurting herself I write this post to give her comfort. This may surprise some, but my mother has read posts from this Christian Universalists Discord server before. I see no reason to stop her from learning, there are useful resources on here after all. When the hurtful behavior has stopped, why continue holding a grudge? It's wrong.
If another incident arises, I can type about it. But now that things have calmed down, I bless my mother with great peace. There are many sins, evil deeds and mistakes I have made in the past that I wish to move on from. "Do unto others what you want others to do to you". I wish to be forgiven from those errors swiftly, therefore let me forgive the transgressions of others quickly.
Matthew 7:1-2 NRSVue Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Do not judge, or you will be judged.
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Therefore let us follow this command and not judge,
κρίνετε (krinete) Strong's 2919 other people otherwise we will be judged κριθῆτε (krithēte) Strong's 2919.
I don't judge my mother for her past she went through, that's out of her control. She suffered so much growing up because of the cult she was in, the physical abuse she experienced. Therefore, let me not judge her by what she experiences in the future as well, for she is a product of her environment and if I grew up in that environment I would literally act in the exact same way. That is why, as the verse says, those who judge others bring judgment to themselves. Notice how the same κρίνω (krinó) root is used, Strong's 2919, just with different verb conjugations. Any human could have theoretically been any other human. Our souls are just in these particular bodies because God planned it. That's it.
I notice many waste so much time in trying to judge who is a quote-on-quote Christian or not. "Did this come from a Christian TM source?" they may say. I don't care. Good information is good, regardless of where it comes from!
Younger infernalist me had committed the sin of being judgmental many times, out of fear of people burning in hell forever. That's the bad fruit created from that belief, being judgmental.
But with Chrisian Universalism, everyone's going to be Christian anyways. Why judge someone for just getting randomly luckier and believing in Christ sooner or later? It's bad and pointless.
If a person refuses to be friends with someone just because they're an "atheist" or a "different religion" then they also commit the sin of judging a person based on their past. If someone refuses to be friends with person because they think they won't continue to fit their subjective definition of a "True Christian TM", then they commit the sin of judging a person based on their future.
My view. If someone says they're a Christian, they're a Chrisian. If someone says they're not a Christian, they're not a Christian. I'll take their word for it. A friend is a friend. I ain't God, I don't know what's in peoples hearts anyways, so it's literally impossible for me to get a completely accurate picture.
Thus I bless my mother, my friend, with great joy in the past, present and future. Because of Christian Universalism I feel I have learned to be able to love my mother much more and I am grateful.
So yeah, don't judge me that I typed out this whole post on my phone while sitting on the toilet lol