How can we see by observing, that CHRISTIANITY like other religions, that is composed of sects/denominations is founded on MORALITY and emerged into a RELIGION? During the time of Jesus Christ the religious leaders applied and followed the commandments as religious leaders in our time.
Take for example the commandment, "Thou shalt not steal." Did not Jesus Christ see how this commandment was applied and followed that the two thieves were nailed with Him on the cross? These thieves were guilty of taking things of value belonging to other people, as robbers today are perceived by our religious leaders. In other words, this commandment, "Thou shalt not steal," has not changed its perceived meaning during the time of Christ as it is today. Jesus Christ rebuked the Scribes and Pharisees, saying:
Matthew 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Does not "the outside of the cup and platter" refer to MORALITY which in the commandment, "Thou shalt not steal" refers only to "robbing other people of material things?" Why did the religious leaders at that time "did not see" the essence of this "commandment of stealing" that Jesus Christ explicitly stated in the following:
John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Jesus said:
John 10:9 I am the door...
John 14:6 I am the truth...
The religious leaders at that time were rebuked by Jesus Christ in the following:
John 8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
Are not religious leaders in our time not also being rebuked in the foregoing truth?
When, then, is "cleanliness of the inside of the cup and platter?"
My eyes were opened when I read the whole of Matthew 23.