Should one reject Jesus?

Why would we ask you to reject Jesus?
There is no disagreement between Father and son.

However the real problem is that some of the teachings of the New Testament are not standard teachings of spiritual knowledge. They are superficially superimposed on the teachings of Jesus by later sources.

It appears that there was a rift between two parties, both on the bodily platform, both with no clue to perceive the transcendental character of the message of Jesus.

Paul tried to make sense out of Jesus probably to his best of his abilities. So did the group around James, Peter and the rest.

Paul made no qualms about it that he preached a different concept of Jesus:
"...For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those "super-apostles.." (i.e. James, Peter and the rest) (2 Cor. 11:5).

Hence Christianity as we know it might well be a spin off of the original Jesus movement described by the well established contemporary scholar Burton L. Mack as a Christ Cult of Northern Syria and Asia Minor, - Paul possibly being it's eloquent exponent.

It appears that James and his party gradually regressed to some extend back towards Judaism, with James praying daily in the temple ("...he was in the habit of entering alone into the temple, and was frequently found upon his knees begging forgiveness for the people, so that his knees became hard like those of a camel in consequence of constantly bending them on his worship of God..." - (Eusebius, Church History II.Ch XXIII,5-7) That, while Paul's party with their theology of redemption from the cross, the concept of the dying God, drew largely on concepts from the pagan mystery cults of the Mediterranean basin went their own way (especially interesting is in this regard the cult of the savior God Mithra, who similarly dies for the sins of his followers.

More so: it's hard to overlook certain similarities to the Last Supper if one considers that those who partook in the meal in memory of Mithra also were to participate in his death and resurrection.

Further remarkable is that Mithra's birthday happens to be the 25th of December, Christmas. Even the sacred day of the week for the followers of Mithra, him being the sun god, is the Sunday and not the Sabbath, undoubtedly observed by Jesus and his followers.

While the Jerusalem mother church was routed by the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, some of the followers apparently retreating to Trans Jordania, (the famous flight to Pella), later to become known as Ebionites, Paul's construct survived by default. It is remarkable in this connection that the Ebionites as described by Epiphanius of Constantia (AD 315 - 403) in his Panarion (Ch. 30) perceived Jesus as a perfect human rather than God. They believed that one couldn't follow Jesus unless one gives up eating meat. They did not believe that Jesus was born by a Virgin. And they declared the teachings of Paul to be heresy - Paul, being the first apostate (the first to fall from the faith).

Some scholars such as Klausner postulate, that the teachings of the Ebionite Christians could well be closer to the teachings of the Jesus of History. "However, the influence of Jewish Christianity, despite its decade of unchallenged supremacy, was not absolute, and the author of this innovating document, which we know now as the Gospel of Mark, was clearly inspired by the Theology of Paul.

S.G.F Brandon says: "The death of Jesus, moreover, is set forth not as an accident, to be explained apologetically by means of Old Testament quotation, but as an event of universal soteriological significance, which could not be understood by the celebrated representatives of the Jewish Apostles."

And that's then where the whole thing split, and the section which based its Theology on a person who never met Jesus in person, namely Paul, took off into a different direction: the Christianity we know of since 200 years.

Coming back to the original question: Should one reject Jesus?

Not at all. We just ask you to discover the historical Jesus. And modern scholarship will help you in the Quest to develop a more enlightened understanding of Jesus and his teachings.

Srila Prabhupada, the spiritual master of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness said: "If one loves Krishna, he must love Lord Jesus also. And if one perfectly loves Jesus he must love Krishna too. If he says, "Why shall I love Krishna? I shall love Jesus," then he has no knowledge. And if one says, "Why shall I love Jesus? I shall love Krishna", then he has no knowledge either. If one understands Krishna, then he will understand Jesus. If one understands Jesus, you'll understand Krishna too" (Srila Prabhupada - Room conversation with Allen Ginsberg, May 12, 1969 / Columbus - Ohio).

That is our position.