Re: Penn State Officials Reportedly Planning Paterno's Exit
I think these are all very reasonable questions. I don't understand why in this day and age we are ready to burn people at the stake the day after we learn vague facts about possible misdeeds.
Matt 7:2-5
"For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged [if we judge with an evil heart or dark intent, His judgment of us will reflect it; if we judge nobly with honesty and justice, His judgment of us will reflect that, too], and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you [if we use extremes or exaggerations or other ignoble means, our judgment will reflect it and judging with fairness and compassion will garner likewise in His judgment of us].
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye [point out his sins, "minor" in Jesus' example here] and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye [our own sins, even and especially those we will not admit, magnified by our selective blindness]?
How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' [tell him of his "minor" sins] when all the time there is a plank in your own eye [that there are greater or the same sins in our own lives which we do nothing about or think we are above]?
You hypocrite [pointing out the sins of others while by pretense thinking of ourselves as above sin], first take the plank out of your own eye [sincerely ask the Lord for forgiveness and learn and live the Truth and Light by His Word], and then you will see clearly [be in a righteous position] to remove the speck from your brother's eye [to judge and to help him out of his bondage to sin]."
At Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan, Jesus was talking to the multitudes gathered there after hearing of His message and of His healings to beseech them to not become like the pharisees and hypocrites who think they are above sin.
I do have a right to speak on this subject, I was a victim 3x over, although I don't go around expounding on it.
My own Mother and father didn't believe me, maybe because I was 9 yrs. old at the time. so I personally walked to a Mobile County Deputy Sheriff's house and told him, to my dismay he did nothing. :mad2:
After the 3rd time, I was 10, I left and went [walked-scared to death] to my grandmothers in Montgomery., I told her and she took me to the AL State Police Barracks to tell them, long story short, he served 3yrs. in prison, you have to remember this was back in early '50's!
