Reply #48: There are many different messages in the NT.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

It's a hodgepodge of historical stuff, fiction, ancient myths, stories that were edited for political purposes by men who wanted to keep women and slaves inferior, and they wanted to gain political power at the Council of Nicaea.

If you think the message of the NT is the Sermon on the Mount, that is just one.

Jesus supposedly advocated all the hateful mass murders and senseless violence of the OT, if you believe the stuff was really said by Jesus, who is not historically certain to have lived.

The message of christianity is unique: All persons are sinful because their parents had sex; all persons are sinful because Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge and therefore women are the cause of sin; the only way to remove this sin is to accept substitutionary atonement in the form of Jesus; the only way to eternal life is christianity; the only true religion is christianity.

Christianity posits a false problem (original sin) and provides a unnecessary answer(accepting Jesus in substitutionary atonement) to a false problem.

If you don't believe the pernicious and hateful doctrine of original sin, then the whole religion falls apart.