http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/october1/29.70.html
"Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.
In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.
And, when you come to think of it, nobody would ever forgive anyone for wrongs he had done; we only forgive people for what we blame them, and we blame them only after we have judged them."
"Jesus may have been moved to speak as he did by the haughty way the Pharisees had of judging people.
In Matthew 5:20 through 7:6, Jesus warns his disciples against following the traditions and practices of the Pharisees, who judged others as if they themselves were beyond judgment. What's more, they judged people by the letter, not the spirit, of the law.
So, most likely, Jesus meant, "Do not judge at all if you judge others the way the Pharisees do.
If you do judge people this way, you will be judged with the same severity."
Jesus' intent comes out in his metaphor of motes and beams (Matt. 7:3-5).
We all have beams in our eyes, so to speak; to judge people for the little motes stuck in their eyes while we have big beams in our own is devilish arrogance as well as folly."
