I hope I will be  forgiven for mentioning that there is very little evidence that Jesus ever existed except as a mash-up of various religious writers. So they who say Jesus would do this or that, well, isn't it all fantasy? To hold our fellow humans to a standard that is more invention than reality is silly. It is like having kids try to be more like Superman, or understand that the Gods on Olympus would be mad if he didn't eat his peas. 

We are the gods that we mumble about worshipping and all religious writing is out of the mind of man. Good chance we wouldn't have so many bomb victims if we didn't have religions and religious wars and true believing Presidents. Of course, those of us who don't "believe" are shut out of most elections. 
The Romans had their twelve gods in the Pantheon, the Greeks had their twelve Olympian gods, and Americans have...
Not sure what form American Christianity has taken in reality...it is so many voices and imperial temples. 
Hugh Massengill, Eugene