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Jesus said to the Sadducees:

Jesus replied, “You are IN ERROR because you DO NOT KNOW THE SCRIPTURES OR THE POWER OF GOD. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 31 But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you..." (Matt. 22:29-31)

So are you accusing Jesus of being "insecure"???

Jesus also said to various religionists:

Matt. 15:9: But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Matt. 16:12: ...guard against the yeast...against the TEACHING of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Luke 11:52: ... you have taken away the key to knowledge.
John 8:44,47: You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies…The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.
Mark 7:6-8,13: He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’ 8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.” …13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
See also the entire chapter of Matthew 23!

So are you accusing Jesus of repeatedly expressing some sort of "insecurity"??? Really?

Is that the best you can do? Indirectly throw stones at Jesus' condemnation of others' religious 'adherencies'?

Seems to me you are awfully--sloppily--inconsistent...

You claim it's an "insecure...weakness" to attempt to dilute another's faith...

So what do you do? You attempt to dilute my faith which says to "11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them...13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. (Ephesians 5)

By your own logic, if you were so "secure" in your "faith," you wouldn't say anything negative about anyone -- including me.

So, I take it, Laotzu...based upon this so-called "principled" approach of yours...
...that had you been in a position to try to discourage Jim Jones' "Peoples Temple" followers from going to Guyana -- even if you had gone on some "Back to the Future" trip & knew what would happen -- you wouldn't speak negatively vs. Jim Jones...
...Or the same with the 38 Heaven's Gate followers that Marshall Applewhite Pied Pipered into committing suicide? Heaven's Gate

...Or what about the 74 deaths linked to the Solar Temple 1994-97? Cult Suicide

Laotzu, just as there are physical deaths, there is such a thing as spiritual death.

You can mozie about & pretend it doesn't exist...and that you don't care about people's spiritual destination...I don't buy into that "lazy-fair" doctrine...