You know - do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Who came up with that first, anyway?
2007-07-20 05:00:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please provide a copy/paste instance of whatever you are citing.
2007-07-20 05:08:29 · update #1
Jesus said it as far back that I would know of.
2007-07-20 05:06:32 · answer #1 · answered by Bobbie 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
42 Confession and Denials!! Dibbs!!
The 42 negative statements of confession that are mentioned in the Book of the Coming Forth by Day (known as the Book of the Dead) express what is expected from man in order to be saved in the afterlife. Among those statements, we read the following:
I have not uttered evil words
I have not caused pain
I have not caused shedding of tears
I have not caused terror
I have not worked grief
I have not acted with insolence
I have not done either harm or ill
I have not spoken scornfully
2007-07-20 05:02:37 · answer #2 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lao Tze, Tao Te Ching, Ancient China. He's a very folkloric figure but he lived no later than 500 BCE.
See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.
--Tao Te Ching
2007-07-20 05:16:49 · answer #3 · answered by KC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Luke 10:25-37 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
25On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
26"What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?"
27He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'[a]; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[b]"
28"You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live."
29But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
30In reply Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. 35The next day he took out two silver coins[c] and gave them to the innkeeper. 'Look after him,' he said, 'and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.'
36"Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?"
37The expert in the law replied, "The one who had mercy on him."
Jesus told him, "Go and do likewise."
Footnotes:
1. Luke 10:27 Deut. 6:5
2. Luke 10:27 Lev. 19:18
3. Luke 10:35 Greek two denarii
I do not accept the old testament, so this is the first one I thought of.
Blessed Be
2007-07-28 04:14:44 · answer #4 · answered by Linda B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hammurabi Code.
2007-07-20 05:03:14 · answer #5 · answered by joe s 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Moses said to you an eye for an eye, but I say love thy neighbor as you would love yourself. Nuff said.
God Bless!
2007-07-28 00:25:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It backdates to the time of moses when he came out with the ten comandmendts from god.
2007-07-20 16:17:52 · answer #7 · answered by Spinning Times LLC 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
after jesus came back from the dead he went to the house of a roman and he nailed him in the groin with a railroad spike
2007-07-20 05:04:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋