When we show favoritism toward others it is evil

4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Showing favor toward others is placing ourselves as a judge over others and it is a position we don’t deserve and a position that scripture doesn’t desire.

First it is a position that we don’t deserve because in the end we are taking our achievements, our education, our appearances, our wealth, our intellect, and taking credit for it as though while we were in the wombs of our mothers we manipulated our DNA at the embryonic stage to give us a greater edge. Any talents, gifts, or abilities we might have are only because God made us this way. Some will push back and say that they worked harder, studied harder, tried harder, and yet still, the very tenacity that is within us to do those things are still attributes that were given to us through God. There is nothing in us innately that sets us apart from the rest of creation that qualifies us to be judges over one another. Therefore, when we step up to the table of humanity it isn’t with arrogance as though we made ourselves this way, but with humility because we are not in a position to judge and when we do it is evil.

Second it is a position that scripture doesn’t desire:

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