Good choice for not wanting to be a Pharisee. They represented a type of mind set, that some humans from Adam/Eve to today, have chosen in order to achieve righteousness by their own efforts. Adam and Eve rejected the Creator's judgment and chose to use their own judgments about good and evil. They attained knowledge of good and evil but that, as the Creator said, would be deadly. What they did not get from the fruit was understanding which the scriptures says comes from the tree of life. They had access to this tree until they rejected God. The first judgment they made was false. God had said earlier that their human sexual anatomy was very good but Adam/Eve chose to judge that it was evil and the religious establishment has been guilt tripping the zombie sheep ever since. The Creator could have intervened any where along their thought process before they ate the fruit but God respected their, and our, right to choose. The Creator has taken him/her self out of the picture except for certain times and situations. That way humans are more likely to demonstrate their true choices. The scriptures say that if the rulers of the Christ's day had known that Yeshua/Jesus was the real Christ, they would not have crucified him. As soon as most humans know who has the power, their noses turn smelly brown. They love the wealth and power not the person who has it. The Creator endowed all humans from Adam/Eve to today with the right to make their own choices without being unduly influenced by His/Her presence. Experience is often the best teacher and no matter what choice we make the Creator knows it will only prove the way of love and the law of liberty are superior to all other ways and laws. <br /><br />As for Israel's slaughter of the nations within the boundries of the land of Israel, God was going to move them out humanely and slowly by environmental methods like increasing the hornet population. It was Israel who , as with the later demand for a king, wanted to be like other nations. Might makes right. They wanted to be involved in the slaughter. King David's heart was right but his understanding was wrong and God refused to let him build the temple in Jerusalem because he was a bloody man. God allowed Israel/Moses/Joshua to choose how they would take the promised land that God took from the local inhabitants because of their evil behavior. Israel, like Adam/Eve, chose the wrong way of hate/death instead of the right way of love/life. This led to their later eviction. <br /><br />As for the love of the Christ. The Christ 's judgment was, and is, to forgive anyone who does not fully know the good or evil aspects of what they choose to do. No human will be judged concerning their future salvation and chance for eternal life until they know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Every human who has ever lived will have that oportrunuty in the future. When the fruits of man's way and choices are seen from human history and then the fruits of the Creator's way are seen after the Christ's millennial rule, the overwhelming majority of humans will freely, without coercion, choose the Creator's way of love and law of liberty. <br />Bottom line, to understand the scriptures one must understand that the servants of God were fully carnal and sinful. Their judgments seldom correlated with the judgments and way of the Creator even though, if you could ask them, they would say they were in full agreement with God. The Christ pointed out the self-righteous religious establishment of His day because their judgments and self-righteous behavior represented the way of man that began with Adam/Eve and continues to this day. With the way of man you always get some humans, just like Cain, who want to control their brother/neighbor. These tyrants often like to think of themselves as benevolent shepherds trying to be their brother's keeper. Then you have a larger group who are always looking for a shepherd that they like and who will tell them.what to do, (the zombie sheep that the Christ talked about.). With the Creator's way you have individual human beings made in the image of the creator who think for themselves and who are equally endowed with the right to have authority over their own lives but no superior authority over their brother's neighbor's life. There is an environment of liberty with accountability and mutual love/respect. Most humans will freely choose that way of life.