Well almost James.
You see Jesus Christ added onto this rule - to do good to those who hate you and revile you. While other religions state it in only in a ‘negative’ context, Christ reversed it as also as a ‘positive.’ If a soldier bids a christian to carry his pack a mile Christ stated we are to carry it 2 miles.
Most religions have in mind to try to ‘earn’ their way to heaven through good deeds. Now the Muslim religion is more than just religion as it seeks to dominate or decimate all others and is a satanic-inspired system.
But Christ preached love and belief in His perfect sacrifice as our only option for salvation. Christians and Jews who are/will be in heaven some day are not there on the own self-righteousness rather the imputed (to believers) righteousness of Christ. See Abram in Genesis.
You see Jesus Christ added onto this rule - to do good to those who hate you and revile you. While other religions state it in only in a ‘negative’ context, Christ reversed it as also as a ‘positive.’ If a soldier bids a christian to carry his pack a mile Christ stated we are to carry it 2 miles.
Most religions have in mind to try to ‘earn’ their way to heaven through good deeds.
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“Here shall no end be hindered, no hope marred
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No loss be feared: faith—yea, a little faith—
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Shall save thee from the anguish of thy dread.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: II, Lines 140-142.
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ARJUNA:
“And what road goeth he who, having faith, |
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Fails, Krishna! in the striving; falling back
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From holiness, missing the perfect rule?
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Is he not lost, straying from Brahma’s light,
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Like the vain cloud, which floats ’twixt earth and Heaven
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When lightning splits it, and it vanisheth?
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Fain would I hear thee answer me herein,
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Since, Krishna! none save thou can clear the doubt.”
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KRISHNA:
“He is not lost, thou Son of Prithâ! No! |
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Nor earth, nor heaven is forfeit, even for him,
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Because no heart that holds one right desire
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Treadeth the road of loss! He who should fail,
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Desiring righteousness, cometh at death
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Unto the Region of the Just.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: VI, Lines 125-138.
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“Of many thousand mortals, one, perchance,
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Striveth for Truth; and of those few that strive—
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Nay, and rise high—one only—here and there—
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Knoweth Me, as I am, the very Truth.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: VII, Lines 8-11.
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“There be those, too, whose knowledge, turned aside
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By this desire or that, gives them to serve
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Some lower gods, with various rites, constrained
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By that which mouldeth them. Unto all such—
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Worship what shrine they will, what shapes, in faith—
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’Tis I who give them faith! I am content!
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The heart thus asking favor from its God,
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Darkened but ardent, hath the end it craves,
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The lesser blessing—but ’tis I who give!
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Yet soon is withered what small fruit they reap
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Those men of little minds, who worship so,
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Go where they worship, passing with their gods.
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But Mine come unto me! Blind are the eyes
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Which deem th’ Unmanifested manifest,
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Not comprehending Me in my true Self!
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Imperishable, viewless, undeclared,
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Hidden behind my magic veil of shows,
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I am not seen by all; I am not known—
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Unborn and changeless—to the idle world.
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But I, Arjuna! know all things which were,
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And all which are, and all which are to be,
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Albeit not one among them knoweth Me!”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: VII, Lines 69-90.
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“Nay, and of hearts which follow other gods
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In simple faith, their prayers arise to me,
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O Kunti’s Son! though they pray wrongfully:
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For I am the Receiver and the Lord
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Of every sacrifice, which these know not
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Rightfully; so they fall to earth again!”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: IX, Lines 92-97.
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“Yet not by the Vedas, nor from sacrifice,
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Nor penance, nor gift-giving, nor with prayer
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Shall any so behold, as thou hast seen!
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Only by fullest service, perfect faith,
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And uttermost surrender am I known
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And seen, and entered into, Indian Prince!
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Who doeth all for Me; who findeth Me
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In all; adoreth always; loveth all
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Which I have made, and Me, for Love’s sole end,
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That man, Arjuna! unto Me doth wend.”
- Bhagavad-Gita, Ch: XI, Lines 332-344.
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