Christian Liberty vs. Judging and Despising

“Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand. But thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God” (Rom. 14:1, 10, ASV). He who does the judging here is the weak condemning the strong. The weak setting themselves up as strong insist that others conform to their ethical conceptions, and so regard those as “backsliders,”...