Posted: 05/14/07

(“The Judgment Principle”, Part 1 of 2)

The Judgment Principle

How could Serdar Tatar's Dad have not known why his son wanted to "go Jihad"?

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By now everyone knows of Serdar Tatar and Eljivir Duka scheming with 4 others to try and kill as many soldiers as possible at Ft. Dix in New Jersey, a base Tatar regularly went onto to deliver Pizzas for his dad's restaurant. One of Tatar's collaborators said they were planning to "go Jihad" for the perceived attacks against their religion, as reported in the New Jersey Star Ledger, May 9^th of 2007. The same day Star 99.1 FM, a Christian radio station, reported Tatar's father had said that he didn't know why his son had been planning this crime.

Wait, what did he say???� He didn't know? Did you find this Dad's comment as strange as I did? I hope you did! Let me explain why with “The Judgment Principle”…
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When I first heard this comment I thought, "How could a Dad not know why his own son was plotting to kill people when he was working for him in his own restaurant?" His son had a tape of Osama Bin Laden, the man who tells all Muslims to "kill the infidels," as he quotes from the Quran to justify his murder of anyone who refuses Islam. His son also had three friends here in the USA illegally. (This is called being an illegal alien not an illegal immigrant). His son had been surveying several targets for his murderous objectives. His son, who said he didn't care what happened to him, is who Bin Laden would call a true Muslim when he was purported as saying he was doing it all for his false God "Allah." How did his Dad not know any of this???
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But that is not all that struck me as odd... it was that his Dad's comment sounded so hauntingly familiar...

Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, and then himself. Some of the teachers at the school, and many others since, claimed they didn't understand how he could have done this; why he could have done this.
Ted Haggard was caught in a lifetime of deviance and drug use and yet it seems few could understand why he did it, or how a professing Christian could be so ungodly...

How about the Columbine boys? How quickly was everyone trying to find excuses for them? How they were raised, etc?
It seems we are so quick to excuse evil, so ready to assume goodness... all in direct opposition to what God says:

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The heart of man is desperately wicked...

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That is what struck me as pretty odd... When you see evil perpetrated and yet you look for excuses explaining why a "good" person would do such “bad.” And yet God says clearly there is NO ONE "good." God judges harshly a people who call evil good and good evil.

When you are quick to find no fault, too quick to excuse culpability, the issue lies in your heart, not theirs; it is your heart that is corrupt.

Quick anger is an obvious need for repentance; but those who look to readily excuse another's responsibility for their sins are just as impenitent about their own.

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Jesus told his followers "Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged." And this is a popular quote of Jesus, from Matthew 7, as many use it to try to stop others from exposing evil. But Jesus pointed to the crux of the matter next when He, explaining the result of not judging wisely, said, "For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged... You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye."

Paul understood this in Romans 2: "...you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God; Who will pay back to everyone according to their works..." Paul clearly pointed out that we must make wise determinations of another's actions. And he warned of what will happen to those who judge others on what they themselves do.

(More in “The Judgment Principle”, Part 2 of 2)

Patrick Burwell
OnlyJesusSaves.com�

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Footnotes:

(1)�Jeremiah 17:9 (WEB)

(2) Psalms 14:1 (WEB)

(3) Romans 2

(3) Jeremiah 17:5 (WEB)

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