Mark,
I lived under the Christian umbrella for a very long time. About 40 years...
I come from a very strick religious background. There isn't a Christian Bible quote that I've not heard and a doctrine to go with it.. I had doctrine pounded into my head by the church but I still saw that things didn't add up to what the church was peddling. I decided to stop ignoring these doctinal errors, and decided to venture out into a multiple number of different Christian denominations to see if any of them were functioning on a factual level..  To my disappointment they were not.. They were all puppeting/regurgitating church taught doctrines instead of "word for word" scripture. Then discovered the "word for word" Christian Bibles had even been altered to make it appear JC had fulfilled certain prophecies that he had not..  
I did some very extensive researched on denominational doctrine differences as well, become shocked, disquested and moved on into the study of other faiths..  I find the Jewish community to be diligent in respecting what is in the scriptures and they are very careful not to take things out of context to build a bias self serving doctrine as does the church in which I will never return.. Good luck to you in your own journey and I'm glad you made your way here to MT..Thank you for your time. Shalom