believe in jesus not in religion

I understand very well what you meant in saying that Jesus simply came to cleanse our sins no matter how small, I just don't agree. That's not all Jesus said and he did not simply say he wanted to clean us. He said if you don't accept this offer of cleaning you will be punished forever and denied gods presence. I do not agree with the assertion that Jesus's message was that "we are saved not will be saved". In fact he went into elaborate explanations as to what exactly we must do in order to be saved and assured us that very few people would be saved. He actually said most all people would go to hell in verses like Matthew 8:13-18. Your correct that even the witnesses to Jesus's teachings and supposed miracles did not believe a word of it. the Pharisees who were messianic minded and looking for a savior to fulfill their own Old Testament prophecies witnessed his conjuring tricks and they didn't believe any of it. They were the only reliable witnesses, the only ones that were literate and educated, and they thought he should be arrested. I fail to see how Joseph Smith's dubious claims are any different, The man was charged with several crimes, tried and convicted of fraud and later killed by his critics. Christ's disciples did not create the Bible. They didn't even write anything down. The gospels were written decades after their supposed occurrences by anonymous authors, then edited and added to later. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John did not write the gospels and they did not "make" Christianity. It was emperor Constantine who oversaw the creation of the Christian Bible about 300 years after the supposed events. It was Constantine's council that cobbled together the books to create the Christian Bible as we know it. In 331 he commissioned 50 bibles to be printed and they are the earliest known Christian bibles. If you admit that religions are all inventions of people who want greater control over populations then you must be aware that Christianity is no different. It was made the official religion of Rome by emperor Constantine in 313 A.D.. He was a power hungry thug that used it to rise to power just as you admit all religions are invented for. It simply took advantage of the Hellenistic influence prevalent at the time and and melded this influence with Judaism. Jesus never used the word "Christianity" or said that he wanted to start a new religion in his name he said he was the Jewish messiah and saw himself as a Jew. The word Christ wasn't even invented until later from the Greek translation for messiah and Christianity means followers of the messiah. The distinction you are trying to draw between religion or being religious and being a follower of Jesus teachings is a fallacious one. Jesus's teachings were explicitly religious. While it's true there were religions long before Christianity that does not exclude Christianity or Jesus's teachings from also being religious and divisive in the same way. Your analogy of these competing religions(Mormon and Catholic) being like "different beliefs created by simple people who think they know God" is good and on that point I could agree with you. But then you make the assertion that you in fact have knowledge of god and what constitutes a "highly spiritual life" as handed down to his disciples and that this knowledge should be available to us in these thoroughly non-congruent texts that were not even written by his disciples. You have not demonstrated any of these claims or how you have such knowledge.