text: You appear to be rather confused about what Our Lord taught us concerning the importance of Christian judgment.
  
  In John 7:24 he said, "Stop judging according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”
  
  In other words he told us that we are called on to judge our own actions and the actions of others by the righteous judgment revealed to us by Jesus Christ himself.
  
  As the Apostles taught the Church Fathers what Christ first taught them, and since the Church Fathers then passed on those teachings to us in an unbroken fashion, we can be sure that what we believe through the Church is what Christ chose for us to know.
  
  And what we know through Christ is what we are called on to believe and is therefore how we are to live.
  
  All those who reject what Christ has chosen to teach them through his Church, which is his mystical body, are indeed lost souls