What About the Didache?

[Strefanash]

The differing perspective, "dont do to others as you would not have done to you" might be seen to logically complement the more famous utterance of Jesus. But it is also rather common. I have seen it before, I think it appears in the text of other religions. Memory seems to indictate that it appears in Buddhist or Hindu texts also

But the practical thrust of the Golden Rule is more active. And there is the rub:
WE might think that by biting down on our evil impulses we are refraining from doing to others as we would not have done to us but to obey the rule as put by Jesus requires something we simply do not have, an active love I have never seen outside of the Godhead.


Put the way Jesus put it it says love your neighbour as yourself, something i have never done, therefore I huave never love GOd either, as the logic of I John makes crystal clear. Thus Jesus Christ restates the Law in its full majesty.

For all my disapproval of the so called Church Fathers, they were wise enough to recognize inspired scripture even if they were not spiritual enough to obey it (after all Augustine advocateds state torture of heretics appealing to the verse "compel them to come in"). So if it is not in the canon of scriupture i am no longer interested in it

Pastor Chris, if HR twist you in knots i suggest you simply walk away. I know it took me years to walk away from my nemesis, but I have largely done it now. The battle is God's not mine, and if i am twisted up by them, whoever they may be, then I or anyone in such a situation, do not have peace thus do not have the faith or love to help them out