It amazes me that religious leaders the world over misinterpret the message of Jesus and construe(?) all this date nonsense into a "thing"
Its pretty simple, Jesus simply wanted people to let the ideas of the world, that tell us who we are , just let those ideas die and truly look for the truth of what we are inside so we can be reborn as a human .
When that is achieved true understanding of ALL religions is possible True understanding of God and how we relate to God can not be found if we don't understand something as fundamental as what we REALLY are
We go through life believing what we are told what we see and hear.
If we can just stop for a momement and consider that maybe we havent really looked in the right place for THE answer we can then begin some serious SELF INQUIREY
You can't do a good job with a tool that you don't understand , How can you live a good life with a self you don't understand
We learm what we are capable of what our personality is what we like what we don't like , but that isn;t what we are we are the part that does the realizing