Golden rule

The “golden rulers” may establish a progressive society in which they live according to their ideals while maintaining an adequate defense against their benighted fellows who might seek either to exploit their pacific predilections or to destroy their advancing civilization. 71:4.16-17

The Andonites were early taught the golden rule, and, even today, their Eskimo descendants live very much by that code; custom is strong among them, and they are fairly free from violent antagonisms. 70:1.2

In the Urantia Book

The golden rule was taught in Garden of Eden (74:7.5,18)

• Jesus golden rule was based on infinite worth of finite 196:2.10
• The golden rule of human fairness cries out against all such fraud, unfairness, selfishness, and unrighteousness. 54:1.8
• there are two levels of the golden rule: the brotherly love and fatherly love 140:5.1 147:4
• The golden rule, when literally interpreted, may become the instrument of great offense to one’s fellows. 180:5.5
• The worship of insects and other animals was promoted by a later misinterpretation of the golden rule—doing to others (every form of life) as you would be done by. 85:3.4
• Evolutionary religion drives home to the individual the idea of personal duty; revealed religion lays increasing emphasis on loving, the golden rule. 101:5.11

Living the golden rule

• ethical and moral beings can learn to live the golden rule 50:5.8
• The golden rule as restated by Jesus demands active social contact; the older negative rule could be obeyed in isolation. 140:10.5 159:5.16 178:1.12
• Only moral beings will ever seek for that spiritual insight which is essential to living the golden rule. 52:6.5
• the golden rule can only be comprehended by living them, by realizing their meanings in the living interpretation of the Spirit of Truth, who directs the loving contact of one human being with another. 180:5.11

Statements of the golden rule

• * man achieves the beginnings of spiritual brotherhood when he elects to mete out to them that treatment which he himself would be accorded, even that treatment which he conceives that God would accord them 118:8.10
• * do unto others as you would have them do unto you 131:2.11 131:3.6 131:4.6 131:9.4 131:10.7
• * the first commandment is: have love for the father, the head of the family, and the second commandment is: have a mutual love between the children, love your brother as yourself 142:7.4 163:4.8
• * love fellows as Jesus loved us 147:4.9 180:5.5-11

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Fatherly love 140:5.1 — Jn 14:21,23; Jn 15:9-12; Jn 17:23,26; 1 Jn 3:1.
• Sacrificial lamb 85:3.4 — Gn 22:7-8; Ex 12:3-5; Ex 34:20; Lv 4:32.
• Dove of peace 85:3.4 — Gn 8:8-12; Lv 1:14; Mt 3:16; Mt 10:16; Mk 1:10; Lk 3:22; Jn 1:32.
• Golden rule restated 140:10.5 — Mt 7:12; Lk 6:31.
• Golden rule (old, negative) 140:10.5 — Tb 4:15.
• Repent for forgiveness (Old Testament) 159:5.16 — 1 Ki 8:46-48; 2 Ch 6:38-39; Neh 1:9; Jer 35:15; Jer 36:3; Dt 30:2-3; 1 Sam 7:3.
• God seeks sinners 159:5.16 — Mt 18:11-14; Lk 15:3-10; Lk 19:10.
• Rejoices upon their return 159:5.16 — Lk 15:11-32.
• Negative golden rule 159:5.16 — Tb 4:15.
• Positive admoniton golden rule 159:5.16 — Mt 5:38-48; Mt 7:12; Lk 6:27-38.
• Golden Rule 178:1.12 — Mt 7:12; Lk 6:31. *Golden Rule (negative)*: Tb 4:15.
• Love your neighbor as yourself 131:2.11 — Lv 19:18,34; Mt 5:43-44; Mt 19:19b; Mt 22:39; Mk 12:31,33; Lk 10:27; Ro 13:9b; Ga 5:14; Jm 2:8. *Negative golden rule*: Tb 4:15. *Those who are wise will shine like stars*: Dn 12:3. *I will love my children freely*: Ho 14:4. *Path of just is a shining light*: Pr 4:18. *Let them come back to me, and I will have mercy on them*: Is 55:7.
• Prove all things, choose good 131:10.7 — 1 Th 5:21. *Golden rule*: Mt 7:12; Lk 6:31. *Golden rule (negative)*: Tb 4:15. *Spiritual Brotherhood*: Mt 12:50; Mk 3:35; Lk 8:21; Heb 2:11. *Whosoever will are saved*: Ps 50:15; Jl 2:32; Zec 13:9; Mt 7:24; Mt 10:32-33; Mt 12:50; Mt 16:24-25; Mk 3:35; Mk 8:34-35; Lk 6:47; Lk 9:23-24; Lk 12:8; Jn 3:15-16; Jn 4:13-14; Jn 11:25-26; Jn 12:46; Acts 2:21; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:26; Ro 9:33; Ro 10:13; 1 Jn 2:23; 1 Jn 4:15; 1 Jn 5:1; Rev 22:17b.
• “Family” analogy 142:7.4 — 1 Jn 3:1-2a.
• Love God with all your heart 163:4.8 — Dt 6:4-5; Dt 10:12; Dt 11:1,13,22; Dt 13:3; Dt 19:9; Dt 30:6,16,20; Mt 22:37; Mk 12:30; Lk 10:27; Ro 8:28; Jos 22:5; Jos 23:11.
• Love neighbor as self 163:4.8 — Lv 19:18,34; Mt 5:43-44; Mt 19:19b; Mt 22:39; Mk 12:31,33; Lk 10:27; Ro 13:9b; Ga 5:14; Jm 2:8.

See also

• commandments

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