"Do to others as you would have them do to you."
(Also known as "the golden rule" and for good reasons)
2007-04-10 03:32:27 · 33 answers · asked by Micah 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It really would be a much better place. It would make people more thoughtful for a start - we live in a world of thoughtlessness where most people are only concerned with themselves, just as 2 Timothy 3:1-5 said it would be!
2007-04-10 04:06:35 · answer #1 · answered by north_lights20 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it would be a better world.
But first, one must know the "Golden Rule" to be able to apply it.
This world is a spiritual battleground. As many as there are who would follow Luke 6:31, there are many others that would see it as a sign of weakness, and an opportunity for their own brand of evil.
2007-04-10 03:36:55 · answer #2 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, the more people who learn to take the Golden Rule seriously, the better off we are. But the moment you say "if all people," you are dealing in what logicians call a counter-factual conditional, and the question loses its meaning.
All people will never do any one thing. Get over it.
2007-04-10 03:37:30 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There can be many levels for reading this statement.
For example, a Christian who believe in forced conversion shall read like this, "I like to converted to Christianity, even if force is used, because I may get the heaven permanently after death. There the thrust was on conversion.
Now another Christian who do not like being forced, read it like this, " Since I do not like things being forced upon me, I shall not go for forced conversion ". At this point the thrust was more on doing anything by force.
Same thing can be interpreted differently by different people according to their tastes and likings and nature. May be each one including the so called Satan, an instrument in God's hand to make a presentation in this world. So let the tastes of people work as God has given them to present a variety as they are interpreting things in their own fashion as God already decided.
See here the answer to a quest on restricted God. Nice reading.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Anjj0kc3aJ_e9m06SjYoT_vsy6IX?qid=20060822193746AAMbVNv
2007-04-10 03:58:30 · answer #4 · answered by Indra 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yup. People have used that saying through out the ages, but I'm sure almost no one these days can really say they use it as their life moto. It would be a better world if we did. God bless. (I admit, I don't always do that, but I try to).
For mypublicient, you didn't read that whole passage. Jesus was telling a parable, and he wasn't telling a parable about killing your enemies either. Read the whole parable this time, and try not to take what Jesus says out of context.
2007-04-10 03:37:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I too like the sound of this platinum rule.
The problem with the golden rule is that it all too often becomes the tinnie rule: "Do one to others before they do one to you." Not so nice really. Still, it was clever of the writers of the Bible to take that piece of rather obvious folk-wisdom and claim it as their own - nice work boys!
2007-04-10 04:14:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read a little farther into Luke and see how evil Jesus can be!
Luke 19: 27 (Jesus said) But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
Sorry, no god would ever say anything like that!!!
2007-04-10 03:36:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-21 12:45:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I try to practice it myself, but the years have taught me not to expect to be treated the same way by others. Many people don't treat themselves well, and I get into trouble if I expect them to make an exception for me. I can only control what I do, not what they do.
2007-04-10 03:38:45 · answer #9 · answered by Buffy Summers 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. I can easily imagine things other people would want to done to them that I would not want done to me. Much better is the Confucian version: "Do not do unto others what you would not have done unto you."
2007-04-10 03:43:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋