Gandhi II

These thoughts represent my take on my own limited study of Mohandas K. Gandhi. If I have misunderstood or misrepresented things here, it is unintentional and out of ignorance.

Gandhi was a good man. He was very self-sacrificing, very committed to the poor and the downcast. His championing of non-violence was much more powerful than simply a means to a political end, it was at the core of his philosophy. He lived very simply, and by the work of his own hands. How many Christians can claim to have endured and suffered as much for their beliefs as he did?

Gandhi embraced the teachings of Christ, though he did not believe that Christ was the only Son of God, or that He was raised from the dead. Instead, he took Christ's sermon on the mount as a philosophy that he endeavored to live out.

How are people made right with God? It is easy to make the case that a murderer is in need of grace from God, in need of a savior. What about someone like Gandhi? Were all of his efforts to be pleasing to God on his own enough?