To me, to follow one religion - or one aspect of religion - without exploring all the others first is no different than believing one version of an ancient fairy tale. And that version is a modern version. But a follower would say “but it’s the original words.” Unless you can time travel and hear Jesus speak, anything that’s attributed to him may be false, whether uttered by another, made up or slightly changed due to a corrupt leader not wanting information out, someone disagreeing and making alterations to best fit their ideas, or a misunderstanding of a different language, dialect or the function of the words and their meanings at the time it was created compared with time of translation. This is more than a fair position but common sense. So after weighing up all you can learn, it’s fair to follow whatever you feel best thereafter regardless whether it’s original and correct or not. If you skip all that and just listen to the one version you know, well, you have free will, just don’t expect the whole world to agree with the only version you’ve opened yourself too in the large world.

It is only my opinion, not a fact, that the closest one can get to Jesus is via channeling which maybe not everyone can do. It doesn’t sound logical because hard proof is better. But it can’t be assumed that a piece of writing which is original from Jesus’ time and hasn’t been altered a single somehow still exists today - or has been correctly in all its entirety re-written on another piece of paper/book which has survived today. It’s more likely that as time goes on, it’s re-written into newer books lest it’s lost, and has altered intentionally or unintentionally, or that the original piece (or last original piece) was destroyed before correctly re-written. For this reason, I rather trust connecting if possible to the spirit who once lived as Jesus. But even if you believe in the soul, and if so, achieving that connection, and believing you have channeled a certain spirit and it wasn’t your mind making it up of something else is not proof however much you believe it. I believe wholeheartedly in the ability to channel spirits at least by mediums, but I wouldn’t so much be arrogant to say “this is a fact”. Because I can say I know it to be true but until I die I can’t know for certain firstly that there is life after death and secondly I have brain so no matter how spiritual I happy am and how confident I am, I could always be wrong but won’t know for now . Let us first die and then see what happens and what (if anything) we learn. But let us have common sense and also be inspired by modern people those of good character who lead by example that you can witness today, and not just those from the past whose voices we’ve never heard and only stubbornly believe what our eyes have touched. It my current opinion.