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The The Fairness Fairness DoctrineDoctrine

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Good Good PeopPeop

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BadBadThinThingsgs

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But, its just

But, its just

not fair!not fair!

Between LettersBetween LettersBible scholars suggest:

Paul’s first letter had desired effectActions taken against sinful membersBut, some ‘disciples’ had come among the members and had been, for some unknown reason, disparaging Paul and his brethren.

Paul’s defense…Paul’s defense…

2 Corinthians 12: 1-10

And yet….2 Corinthians 12:

13-15Question: how

would you not become angry and resentful?

QuestionQuestion

When it comes to discipline/punishment with children, what has the greatest impact on them: spanking or the ‘silent treatment’?

Consider…Consider…

 "The withholding of love [holding a grudge] is the negation of the spirit of Christ, the proof that we never knew him, that for us he lived in vain.

It means that he suggested nothing in all our thoughts, that he inspired nothing in all our lives,

that we were not once near enough to him to be seized with the spell of his compassion for the world." 

For ExampleFor Example

2 Corinthians 2: 4-8

And…D&C 64: 8-10

Joseph SmithJoseph SmithEver keep in exercise the

principle of mercy, and be ready to forgive our brother on the first intimations of repentance, and asking forgiveness; 

and should we even forgive our brother, or even our enemy, before he repent or ask forgiveness, our heavenly Father would be equally as merciful unto us.

Again….Again….

St. Hugh Nibley’s summation of a life full of gospel scholarship:

Repent and Forgive.

Sir Thomas More to his Sir Thomas More to his accusersaccusers

Paul ... was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death,

and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever,

so I verily trust and ... pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation,

we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation. (Anthony Kenny, Thomas More [Oxford University Press, 1983], p. 88.)

The WeaverThe Weaver

My life is but a Weaving, between my God and me,

I do not choose the colors, He worketh steadily.Oftimes He weaveth sorrow, and I,

in foolish pride,Forget He sees the upper, and I

the underside.

Not till the loom is silent, and the shuttles cease to fly,Will God unroll the canvas and explain the reason whyThe dark threads are as needful in the Weaver's skillful

handAs the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has

planned.