Is condemnation in Christianity a you problem? While out walking this afternoon, there were two people across the street from me that were so loud you couldn't help but hear them. Given COVID concerns right now, I'm glad they were on the other side of the street! Anyway, the relevant line in their conversation was, "If you want to condemn half the population of the world, that's a you problem." Apparently, the speaker wasn't Christian and the other was, unless they were just disagreeing in preparation for a debate or something.

Christianity presents each of us with two options. Salvation. Or condemnation. So the conclusion seems to be, for this person, that condemnation in Christianity is our problem, as Christians. But is that true?
Unfortunately, since the two people were going in the opposite direction, I didn't get to hear the answer.
However, depending on the relationship of the two people, how friendly or antagonistic the conversation was, Etc. - the answer could have been something like, "No, it's a you problem".
Before I explain that, let me show you just one excerpt from the Bible. We'll see that the response is correct, if not necessarily appropriate in whatever the circumstances might have been, on a couple of levels. It's a portion of a passage telling us about a conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus, a Pharisee. It includes John 3:16, which most people know about, even non-Christians. But it also contains a few very important verses after that one, which I think even a lot of Christians tend to forget about.
John 3:16
Jn 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”
Look at verse 18, and what comes next to explain what Jesus just said.
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