where does it say anything about burning people who don't agree with it?
It does not. never has.
neither do any of the other Christian creeds that I know of.
As you say Jesus taught to treat others as we would like to be treated.
And why do we even listen to his words? because He is who the creed says he is.
If not, he's just some 1st century Jewish street preacher who was killed by the Romans.
or a myth.
Where exactly? what do you mean?
People can think what they want.
But Peter who walked with him When asked to speak about Jesus said
..."You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached— how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him."
“We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”...
Acts 10:37-43
that's what Peter talked about 1st. and thought was
the point of the whole thing.
people are perfectly free to think otherwise but again, it's odd to me that we would think we know better "what the REAL Point is" than the people that lived with and Him and heard him speak and explain it all to them
1st hand.
Why would anyone assume they know better?
If someone says I LIKE THIS part better, OK I can get that. but I don't understand people claiming that xyz is WHAT REALY is the point. when it's clear that's NOT what Jesus or the apostles said.
"love your neighbor" is a Foundational truth, but not THE main thing Jesus told the apostles and christians to talk about.
"He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
"...He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name...”