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Jesus never told us to believe in Him. He told us to be “in Him.” That is what communion is all about.

He told us to believe in our Father that works through Him.

As He is One with His Father. His Father is in Him and He is in His Father. And if we are in Him, then His Father that is in Him is also in us. That is the secret to being filled with the Holy Spirit.

Jesus never told us to believe in Him. He told us to be “in Him.”

Well that's a new difference without a distinction. Sounds like a way to start a new cult. For not only did He and the Spirit tell us to believe Him, in/into/on Him and His words - and condemned those who did not - but that is how to be in Him.

For neither did his brethren believe in him. (John 7:5)

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (John 14:1)

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (Joh 3:15-16)

And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? (Joh 11:26)

While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. (John 12:36)

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. (Mat 18:6)

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. (John 5:46)

Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. (John 6:29)

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36)

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; (John 17:20)

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. (John 17:21)