Many Christians believe Martin Luther King Jr. is the best example of Christianity. But this presents a serious problem. While King undoubtedly considered himself a devout Christian, he acquired his commitment to nonviolence primarily from the writings of Mohandas K, Gandhi. In 1959, he traveled to India to learn the principles of nonviolent social protest directly from Gandhi’s disciples. Where did Gandhi, a Hindu, get is doctrine of nonviolence? He got it from Jains.
If you think Jesus taught only the Golden Rule and love of one’s neighbor, read the New Testament and pay particular attention to the morality that will be on display when Jesus returns: 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9
…since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away fromb the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
John 15:6
If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
Revelation 6: 10
They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
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