Were Jesus and Ghandi really that similar?

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Forget about Gandhi’s remarks that he liked Christ but did not like Christians. Some people today seem to believe Gandhi was the closest we’d gotten to a second Jesus Christ in recent years. Do you feel this way? I smell something fishy, I don’t believe Jesus would have been so political, especially since his nation was also occupied by foreigners whose authority he never questioned. And I’m not too sure, but I get the impression Gandhi was a pacifist? While I don’t think that applies to Jesus. That said, maximum respect for Gandhi, whom I don’t know much about but seemed to be a good man, and of course Jesus the Lord.
 
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Jesus said to ‘render to Caesar what is Caesars…’
Ghandi said (essentially) ‘resist with all you have’

so, very different on that front
 
NO, I don’t think that at all, chiefly because I don’t view him as any sort of God.
There is only one God.
 
Ghandi was a decent human leader, but he could never even begin to be compared to Jesus. Ghandi never healed anyone, he never brought anyone back from the dead. He didn’t die for our sins, he didn’t open the gates of Heaven for us. He starved himself and did some “good” against the British Empire.

I have respect for the man, but no, he is nothing compared to Jesus.
 
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Ghandi the humanitarian mystic, in his later years after years of fasting, was a frail and fragile man. Because of his fasting, he developed halitosis as the food balance in his stomach was always out of balance. In India, it’s very common that folks don’t wear shoes, so he had big callouses on his feet. To summarize, I suppose we could call Ghandi a super-calloused, fragile, mystic, with extra halitosis. 🤣
 
First of all, your life story is very interesting, and I’m deeply sorry for your being orphaned 😦 Jesus, unlike Ghandi, didn’t seem to fast except when he went to the desert to be tempted. He doesn’t seem to have been a mystic, simply the son of God but passing merely as a wise rabbi who wandered around Palestine.
 
Gandhi’s mission was social and political.
Jesus mission was personal.
 
Jesus stayed clear of politics. His Mission was clear.

Gandhi had a different role as we all do.
 
Jesus was sent by God to be the sacrifice which would take away the sins of the whole world. His coming was foretold from the beginning and is spoken of throughout the whole of scripture. He is the most important ‘human’ to have ever existed; in fact, he himself is our God.

There have been many good people in our world who have had teachings which have much merit, but there never has been, nor is, nor ever will be anyone like our Jesus.
 
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Some people today seem to believe Gandhi was the closest we’d gotten to a second Jesus Christ in recent years. Do you feel this way?
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No.
Gandhi was a great man, but there is only one Jesus Christ.
Others can be “Christ-like”.
Gandhi was “Christ-like” in some ways, such as through advocating non-violence, working for justice, living a simple lifestyle, but he was not Christ.

For one thing, Jesus was not a political Messiah and actively rejected that role, while Gandhi’s entire focus was political.

For another thing, Jesus was perfect and sinless, fully human and fully divine, and died for our sins. Gandhi was neither perfect nor sinless; he was not divine; and he did not die for man’s sins.
 
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