believe in jesus not in religion

Well thanks fedebate, I appreciate your taking the time to debate me. Although I'm not sure if you responded to any of my criticisms. I'll wont present any new arguments here but rather try to wrangle in some if these ideas and summarize a bit. As I previously stated I submit that the "good news" Jesus was preaching is not good. The archaic act of human sacrifice is not at all a good let alone perfect, it is contemptible to think that killing an innocent person will appease an angry god. Likewise I don't accept any of your definitional word games that you neglected clarify even when I stated my objections directly. Jesus's teachings are Religious and just as "God centered" as organized religions it ends the same way as you described "in either pride or despair". It is completely prideful and narcissistic to say that God/Jesus, the creator of the universe personally represents you. People should represent themselves and they should not be relieved of their sins. They should have to live and die with what they have done or there is no real moral accountability. I did not say that "you should follow the teachings of Jesus not religion." that has been your line, I simply said that "I can see your desire to...not be pigeonholed". But I totally disagree with the premises. As I said(which you didn't even acknowledge) there is no difference between believing in and following the teachings of Jesus and being religious or Christian. They are the same. It is a false distinction that you are trying to draw. And you description of early Christianity has been thoroughly inaccurate with assertions like "Jesus's disciples wrote the bible" this entire debate and your depiction in round 5 is no different. You talk about "all the happenings when Jesus rose from the dead and ALL the people that witnessed it"... You must mean the two witnesses (Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:1) which were frightened hysterical women who's testimony wouldn't even have been heard in court at the time or the events surrounding the resurrection story like the earthquake that split open all the graves and all the good people were resurrected, walked around the streets of Jerusalem and greeted their friends Matthew 27:51-53. They kept track of earthquakes back then, There were historians in Jerusalem at that time. If such events occurred they would have made mention of them. Needless to say such events should have shown up on the front page of the Jerusalem Times. Your continued use of phrases like "inside we know that there is a God and that we love him." are completely void of content to someone like myself who doesn't believe any of it and you can't demonstrate any of it. It's odd that you should say due to Jesus "You don't have to criticize other peoples religion just coz' you think you have a better one." when Jesus himself repeatedly criticized other religions. You have given the incorrect usage of words Christianity and religion as well as the incorrect authorship of the Bible. I have argued that not just organize religion but jesus's core teachings that are divisive, damage personal integrity and morality as well as shown your logical inconsistencies and contradictions throughout the debate and you did not respond to any of them. It has been my intention to show that contrary to your statement at the onset that Jesus should not be "the only thing we believe in", but rather that we would be better off to not believe in him at all. Thanks again, for participating.