Bible Baptist Church

The golden rule is not just about man's relationship with his fellow man, but is about man's relationship with his Father God. Luke 6:31 reads, 'as you would that men should do to you , do ye also to them', but it easily could read 'as you would that God should do to you, do ye also unto man'. The bible gives us three things we are to be as our Father God is... holy, perfect, and merciful.  We aren't only called to love our neighbor, but also our enemy as we love ourselves. This colors our understanding of the golden rule when we attempt to exclude our enemy from the definition of the question 'who is my neighbor?'. We need to treat our enemy as our neighbor, rather than treating our 'neighbor as our enemy', if we are to follow the Lord's teachings in Luke 6:27-38.