I see a verse here about avenging oneself, not about passing judgment. Fail.
Doesn't sound very convincing. Obviously you don't have the capacity to send someone to hell. God was telling you that you should let Him handle it.
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that you may not be judged, [2] For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. [3] And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother' s eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye? [4] Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye? [5] Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam in thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother' s eye.
I see here an admonition to not judge unrighteously
Kinda like "let him who is without sin, first throw a stone", um? When you get there, you can judge.
I agree we don't know other men's hearts, or even our own all that well, for that matter. All we can judge are actions.
Which in the NT is considered. When we see someone doing something wrong, we should tell him, but we should not make a judgement about what is in his heart.
Carlin's actions were not the fruits one would associate with repentance.
Nope. But I notice he didn't steal, or lie, or approve of hurting other people. Those are behaviors I would associate with repentance.
He basically couldn't believe in God. He apparently tried when he as in the Air Force, and it didn't happen for him.
If it was a case of invincible ignorance, he might have been saved, as Paul says:
Romans 2:14 For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these having not the law are a law to themselves: [15] Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them, and their thoughts between themselves accusing, or also defending one another,
It is to be hoped, like the "good thief", he died having repented, however unlikely.
Perhaps so. I would always avoid the presumption that we are Godlike enough to make such a judgement. It is a terrible occasion of sin.