lol, come on breh, at least try to have a serious conversation here.
Man #1: "Repent of your sins. I want to tell you how to live a better life so you can enjoy the Kingdom of Heaven. It all boils down to "Love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself. You just need to take another look at your Scriptures and understand the true intention behind them. The truth is available to anyone who opens their eyes."
Man #2: "An angel gave me golden tablets that present an alternate history of the world where Hebrews came to the Americas in 600 B.C. and led them to the Jewish faith, then Jesus came to America and converted them to Christianity, but then they turned away from God and their skin became Black. And I'm the only one who knows this!"
Man #3: "75 million years ago, an alien emperor came to Earth and killed all his subjects here, then poured their bodies into volcanoes and blew them up with nuclear bombs, so their lost souls now wander the Earth. You can only be free of them if you pay $49.99 to take our special test and begin your cleansing sessions at $149.99 per session. I am the only one who kows this!"
The fact that you can't discern the fundamental difference between #1 and the others is ridiculous. And it has nothing to do with "time in history." Islam was founded a long time ago too, yet we still can easily tell that Mohammed was fundamentally different than Jesus in: a) he wrote an alternate history of world events and b) he amassed material and political power.
But Jesus didn't write the Bible or any of those accounts of creation. Jesus had literally nothing to do with writing the Old Testament, it was written hundreds of years before his time. Nor did he hardly even talk about the Biblical account of creation, it's only barely mentioned in his teachings.
For Jesus, you can't even tell if he takes Genesis 1 and 2 as literal or as metaphorical. The choice is not the least bit important to what he's teaching. Whereas for Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard, the fake histories they invented were ESSENTIAL to their message, without those fake histories they wouldn't even have a ministry at all.
If you're being objective like you claim, then you can't fail to see the distinctions there. You're claiming that Jesus, who took the ancient religious texts of his community for granted, is the equivalent of men who entirely fabricated entire religious texts with obvious lies from scratch. You refuse to even acknowledge the obvious difference between someone who preaches from established religious texts and someone who fabricates religious texts on his own, or between someone who amasses financial and other power for himself and someone who rejects such power.
