M K Gandhi And The Gandhian Legacy

[Bharatvarsh]

People refuse to believe that Gandhi was heavily influenced by Christianity and that most of his ideas were Christian teachings, here I am quoting from his own autobiography which shows how Christian Gandhi had become:
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    'I do,' said I.

    'Well then Hinduism offers no absolution therefrom, Christianity does;' and added : 'the wages of sin is death, and the Bible says that the only way of deliverance is surrender unto Jesus.'

    I put forward Bhakti-marga (the path of devotion) of the Bhagavad Gita, but to no avail, I thanked him for his goodness. He failed to satisfy me, but I benefited by the interview.

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So he believed in original sin, the central belief of Christian dogma without which Jesus could not have suffered for the sins of humanity, I have never come across any Hindu who believed in the original sin, it is a Christian doctrine which Gandhi believed which just shows how much he was influenced by Christian ideas.