Did he teach resistance to wrong?
“Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other” ([Luke vi, 29]).
“He who courts oppression shares the crime.”
Lord Amberley, referring to this teaching of Jesus, says: “A doctrine more convenient for the purposes of tyrants and malefactors of every description it would be difficult to invent” (Analysis of Religious Belief, p. 355).
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He taught his hearers to return good for evil. Did he do this himself?
“I pray for them [his followers], I pray not for the world” ([John xvii, 9]).
“Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father” ([Matthew x, 33]).