If Christian Fundamentalists were right about his teachings, Jesus would have been the worst teacher of all time.
If the Christian creeds are the summation of everything Jesus wanted people to believe then why didn’t he just teach the creeds instead of telling stories and giving the Sermon on the Mount?
If the point of Christianity is to close our minds in orthodoxy, why did Jesus take his pupils out by the seaside and ask them to think for themselves about the birds and flowers? If Christianity is just about having the right answers, why did Jesus teach in questions and parables?
If the atonement formulas are accurate recipes for salvation, then why when Jesus was asked about salvation by the rich young ruler did he just tell a parable about compassion? (The Good Samaritan)
If obedience to religious rules is how Jesus wanted us to behave, why did he model breaking religious rules to to feed the hungry? Why did he say the essence of the law can be fulfilled by loving? If mindless moralism was the point of his teaching, why did Jesus call himself the friend of sinners? If the point of Christian ethics is obedience, did Jesus say his teachings would set us free?
If perpetual dependence upon him was what Jesus intended; why, when he finished teaching tell his followers, “Now I no longer call you my students, I call you my friends?” And, if in order to be saved one has to become Christian, why did the disciple Jesus loved teach “whoever has love has God?”
Again, if Christian Fundamentalists were right about his teachings, Jesus would have been the worst teacher of all time.