What's not to love?

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Assuming hypothetically the NT is true, what's not to love about Jesus other than perhaps his statements on punishment?

He talks constantly about justice and equality, loving our neighbors. He addresses phony religious people with bitter sarcasm. He gives us similies more powerful (IMO) and certainly easier to understand than Shakespeare's. He sets up a moral standard that should make all of us cringe with conviction, and stop judging each other immediately. (Anyone who judges another after reading his Sermon on the Mount is a fool, Christian or not)

He takes a thief who has probably done nothing good to paradise, merely for recognizing him as Lord. He is surprised and pleased by the faith of a Gentile centurion, not a follower apparently, who recognizes his authority to heal. He promises to return and make all things right when the world finally is ready to vote him King. He comes to preach to the downtrodden that God loves them all the same, and gives them hope for peace and justice in a desperately evil world. Then he goes and dies on a cross so we don't have to die in our sins, doing what Ghandi called "the perfect act" of love.

What's not to love?

Loving and worshipping as a God are different things, friend.
When I have read the New Testament, I thought it was a grand book, even though it did not particularly strike me as a book from God, as why God would need four different interpretations of a single man's life is beyond me. But yes, Jesus seemed to me as a good person, and a "man of God" from his actions.
But here in my country, he is known as nothing more as a prophet of God, not his son, or God himself and is given respect according to this.