Thank you for raising more points,
We already know evolution gave us so many instincts and we see similar behavior in higher animals. Adding a supernatural element to this is unneeded baggage.
Yes, interested scientists have discovered just some rules, so far, that define how living things evolve with time. These rules have existed since the first sign of life on earth; likely the simplest form of living cells.
Naturally, a human is free to believe that these well-defined, though very complex, rules of which just a small set of them are known were the result of hazard. Being a scientist, I can't believe in hazard because the simplest useful product I design needs me select a few good solutions among zillion of possible wrong ones. So the existence of my Maker is obvious to me. But, just knowing this doesn't give me any extra useful information. It was just the starting point for me to discover the best image of the Will/Energy behind my creation and, most of all, to get from IT all logical answers, I need to know, concerning my existence and how the real world runs.
But I also understand that in case someone is fully content, if not happy, being guided only by the instructions that are embedded in his living flesh, searching anything else would be like searching an 'unneeded baggage', as you said.
But, truth be told, I know why you wrote me "Adding a supernatural element to this is unneeded baggage". It happens that you cannot imagine someone searching his Maker, he does it just for knowledge and nothing but knowledge (as he does at a scientific university). To please your curiosity, the Will/Energy behind my existence doesn't need my worship and praise in public, also doesn't impose on me any rule to obey or ritual to observe.
In brief, and just for your knowledge, I don't have in my reality any of the supernatural elements you used hearing of
The sayings of Jesus are already found in the OT. Scholarship widely agrees the Sermon on the Mount is taken from the Greek OT the Septuigant. Jesus also said he didn't come to change law one jot...
Let us assume that Jesus repeated the Jewish teachings. In this case, I hope you also know why Nicodemus, a
ruler of the Jews, couldn't understand what Jesus was trying to explain to him.
Actually, the teachings on the OT (and the like) were supposed to help certain ancient people (known as Jews) gather in a well-organized group among whom Jesus will be born and live in a human flesh for a while. So what is known as God's Law could be found on the OT not in Jesus message which is about True Love, not about any imposed law. Therefore, indeed and as Jesus said, even in our days, laws, similar, to a good extent, to the Jewish one are still applied by the various ruling systems, religious or political. All these laws include the rule "love your neighbor as yourself... but kill and destroy your enemies"... Right?
Actually, the OT teachings (even most atheists, besides Muslims and formal Christians for a few, apply many of them in their life, excluding the rituals) are very important to humans who have a living flesh
only to take care of in order to serve the material world while they are alive. Such humans form the great majority in the world's population. They are created to serve the material world, by building it (in peace times) and destroying it (in war times).
...that he came with a sword, for families to separate if they cannot agree on religious matters...
About the family and the sword, Jesus reminds me that talking about World's Peace is no sense.
By design, even the members of one family who use sharing the same language, the same culture, the same land... etc., find real hard to live a continuous peace together. So whoever I hear him talking about anything related to World's Peace is, to me in the least, a new comer into life (still ignorant of this fact) or a deceiver to justify something happened (or will happen) when it looks bad to his audience.
... and openly preached Hell, a concept worse than anything in the OT.
Sorry, like I said he said he wasn't here to change the law one jot or jittle among other things that are archaic. Jesus preaches belief or eternal torture. This is not a loving message nor will it ever be.
About Hell, Jesus called it just 'Everlasting Fire'; big difference as we will see. Jesus reminds me that whoever was created to serve the material world only and whoever couldn't feed his living soul with true love and, therefore, lets it die, he will simply return back, at the end, to the state of void, the raw state before his birth. As you know, when we found out that certain things are no more useful to us in any way, we just get ride of them for good. The best way we can do it is by throwing them into fire and let them return back to their raw state; surely not to torture them
I agree with this, all religions are an imaginary character teaching moral lessons.
Actually, they all explore in one way or another how to apply the instincts of the human flesh by using so-called spiritual words or not.
Blood sacrifice for a sky-god is also archaic blood magic. The end of the world in Revelations is straight out of Zoroastrian myths.
He never voided the 10 commandments and preaches torture for freedom of religion. Terrible stuff.
The Hillilite messages are far more loving.
Sorry, I personally didn't hear anything of these from Jesus message. But, I agree with you that many formal Christians around the world don't mind believing what you kindly pointed out about 'blood sacrifice', 'the end of the world' and 'torture in Hell.