[crystalk]

He was trying to promote his particular sect, and trying to show them how Jesus fit in, in the Hebraic cosmos, but I did not hear him say they were lost hellbound sinners if they did not see it his way...

And if he had it would have tended more to prove his own lack of grace, than their lostness....

[Restorer]

He was trying to promote his particular sect

Interesting perspective (for a Christian, anyway). Christianity as no more than another Jewish sect, with no more intrinsic meaning for the rest of humanity than the Essenes, Hasids, devotees of the Kabbala, etc.