[jennyp]

Second -- and more to the point -- if the common wisdom was that the rock slowed as it fell, and whole governments and cultures and modes of behavior were based on the slowing rock, then Jesus' observation would be inarguably profound and significant regardless of the passage of 17 centuries before the math could be found to back it up.

Yeah, if the common wisdom was that the rock slowed as it fell off the cliff. What I'm trying to illustrate is, the Golden Rule is not very surprising. By the time most people have grown up into mature adults, some form of the Golden Rule is understood to be obviously true. So when an adult starts preaching the Golden Rule and then says, "oh, by the way, I'm God," the fact that he's preaching the Golden Rule is hardly evidence of his superhuman intellect & wisdom.

[Tribune7]

What I'm trying to illustrate is, the Golden Rule is not very surprising.

But it is. Consider the Old Testament Code of eye for an eye. Consider the Roman code of the 12 Tablets.

"Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you" is revolutionary.