John 4:24
God is Spirit
24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
John 1:1-3
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
Mark 10:18
No One is Good but God Alone
18 "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone."
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
John 8:31-32
The Truth Shall Set You Free
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Luke 6:37-42
Judging Others
37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
39 He also told them this parable: “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40 The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.
41 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
When we are able to follow Jesus' teachings we are His disciples and then we will know the Truth and the Truth will set us free...When we know the Truth we will learn something, about who we are...When we try to follow Jesus' standards we learn this about ourselves...Jesus shows us for who we are and learn about ourselves in His Truth...So the Truth shows us much about who we are...
Our minds like to measure, judge, and adjust...Our thoughts are usually calculating, measuring, and adjusting...For instance, if we are to go to the store, our mind calculates, if we go to far, we recalculate, remeasure, and adjust...When we are at work we must calculate and measure and think through ideas to get our work done...But when our minds try to do this with people it takes a different type course...So when we measure people in our minds and with our thoughts, it takes on a different perspective...When we have thoughts about other people our minds go into this measuring, judging, and adjusting mode...And we are often measuring and adjusting people in our thoughts rather than our trips to the store or our work...And when we do this we are actually judging people with our thoughts...
We generally have fewer complaints and judgments on people who are very similar to us...We judge them less...Our thoughts are similar to theirs...We can learn about ourselves when we judge others, and question others on why they do certain things, say certain things, and are a certain way...We judge their behavior(s), without thinking about our own behavior(s), because this is the way our minds work...When we judge others we are sometimes, if not always, asking that person we are judging to be more like us, to come around to my way, to listen to me, to think about it on my terms -to think more like us...If one has ever thought, why is that person like that, we are probably saying why can't they be more like me...We forget about the plank in our own eye and only see the faults and flaws of others, while we are hamstrung with other faults and flaws of of own...Our minds and thoughts are measuring other people, often without thinking about (it) in our own personal and measuring ways...We would like for many people to be like us when we judge...Jesus reminds of this, in His teaching on judging others...We have as may planks, as our neighbors have sawdust and specks...
Judging and measuring others by our own personal standards is wrong...Jesus and His Father can see the whole picture, the entire universe...We see only this current item or thing...God sees the complete universe, and has complete understanding of the universe...And only God is good...Who we are, is problematic...We are sinners...God is the One that is Absolutely Moral, Completely Understanding all things...Only He is the rightful judge, since He sees and knows everything...Our LORD and Savior is Absolute Truth...
God is Spirit...It is very difficult to understand Absolute Truth from a limited human sensory perspective...We view and interpret and understand things with our minds and thoughts though our senses of eyes, ears, touch, and smell...It is so difficult, if not impossible for the human mind to conceive or to imagine what one one has seen, or no one has experienced...Absolute Truth is universal...God has experienced all things, since He created all things, and all things were made through Jesus...We need somehow to think beyond our senses of eyes, ears, and touch...God is completely beyond our senses, our desires, and our way of thinking...God is Spirit...