I’m not “splitting hairs” with you.
My inital statement is more or less you final statement. Christianity is nothing without Christ.
Your initial retort to my statement was that Christianity is nothing without Family. You might as well say that it is nothing without Truth. Christ’s embodyment of God (and God embodying all things Holy) means that all are correct- but Christ is the focus of our mutual faiths.
No, it wasn't. That's why I chided you for not reading it. I identified our creation in the image and likeness of God as reaching its fulfillment in the family. Our understanding of God begins the same way the Bible begins and ends, with family bonds.
The difference in our positions is in understanding that Christ wasn't just saving sinners, He was rebuilding a family. We aren't pardoned criminals, we are adopted sons and daughters. Christianity isn't only about a sacrifice on the Cross for the expiation of sin but about the sacrificial offering of the New Covenant, reforging our familial bonds with God Himself.
It's a very important distinction and it reaches beyond simply memorizing one verse of one book of God's Library to embrace the whole of His Word.