Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: chappell@antares (Glenn Chappell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: This Present Darkness Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 06:30:09 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Math Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article henning@acsu.buffalo.edu (Karl colossal Henning) writes: >Michael Podeszwa 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". I'd just like to point out that the Bible *does* in fact say both of those: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged." - Matt 7:1 (NIV) "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." - Matt 7:12 (NIV) GGC <><