Do Good Teachers Exaggerate?
Keywords
Jesus as new Moses, judgment, self-reflection
Abstract
Jesus demonstrated that He was the new Moses when He delivered from a mountain the updated law to live by.
He told the gathered crowd, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
Jesus elaborated on this principle with an unforgettable metaphor (slightly updated for clarity).
“For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote [sliver] that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam [telephone pole] that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote [sliver] out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [telephone pole] is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam [telephone pole] out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote [sliver] out of thy brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:2-5)
Original Publication Citation
Do Good Teachers Exaggerate?, February 15, 2019.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Halverson, Taylor, "Do Good Teachers Exaggerate?" (2019). Faculty Publications. 10010.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/10010
Document Type
Other
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
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