Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: This Present Darkness Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 06:59:47 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article henning@acsu.buffalo.edu (Karl colossal Henning) writes: >>I've always been taught that "Judge not lest ye be judged" was not >>to say that we shouldn't judge, but that whatever standards we use >>to judge will be used for us as well. If we couldn't judge, who >>could say murder is wrong? > >That's a socially pragmatic interpretation, perhaps; but really, >that's not what it /says/. It doesn't /say/ "do unto others as >you would have them do unto unto you"; it /says/ "do not judge -- >or you'll be judged yourself". Thousands of times in my life I've prayed that God would hold me to the same standards I hold others to. I say it, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." (I'll bet you say something similar.) I was taught that this was the kind of prayer that Jesus suggested. With that in mind, I think that the above interpretation might be close to what Jesus had in mind. Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton