{"id":149,"date":"2011-04-20T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/tit-as-you-would-be-tatted\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T23:07:00","slug":"tit-as-you-would-be-tatted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/tit-as-you-would-be-tatted.html","title":{"rendered":"Tit as you would be Tatted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Nick Norelli responded earlier today<\/a> to my post about God and objective morality<\/a>. In the process, he mentions John P. Meier\u2019s treatment of the \u201cGolden Rule,\u201d which he feels is best not viewed as authentically coming from Jesus, since it teaches an ethic of reciprocity that is incompatible with other ethical teaching that is likely to be authentically from Jesus.<\/p>\n

I remember reading Meier\u2019s treatment of this and disagreeing. I don\u2019t believe that the Golden Rule teaches a \u201ctit for tat\u201d approach to morality. It says, rather, \u201cTit as you would be tatted\u201d or \u201cTat as you would be titted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hopefully my point is clear even if some of the above are not really words \u2013 or if they are, I would probably just as soon not find out what they mean\u2026<\/p>\n

Anyway, the Google Books preview of Meier\u2019s volume, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4: Law and Love<\/em><\/a>\"\"<\/em>, is provided below, in case anyone wants to look further at what he has to say on this topic.<\/p>\n

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