What is the Golden Rule?<\/p>\n\t
It is the popular name for Jesus’ statement in Matthew 7:12, “Whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them.<\/em>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: What is the Golden Rule? 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It is commonly called the Golden Rule. \"Do unto others as you would have them to do unto you\" (Matthew 7:12). That would eliminate all criminal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2710,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-isnt-more-time-spent-on-spreading-the-golden-rule\/","url_meta":{"origin":23595,"position":1},"title":"Why isn’t more time spent on spreading the golden rule?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 28, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Yes, I did generalize your views when I inferred that the church goes after sins of the \"flesh\" and homophobic is one of the words I used to describe your stance. After reading your response it turned out that I was right in your case. 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