You’re right, it’s 2 commandments, but both say the same thing. Jesus said the 2nd commandment is like the first and more or less of the the same importance. As in, if you don’t love your neighbor then you don’t love God. In that order. You can’t love God unless you love your neighbor first and that is difficult to do but is required if you want to love God.

The point Jesus seem to be making is that with love of neighbor comes love of God.

Much good advice is given in Paul’s letters to the Churches he founded and are certainly important guides. But I tend to go by what Jesus is said to have said while Paul seems to be more structural, more ‘follow the letter’, and you will be saved by God. Much like the Pharisees Whom Jesus criticized, except that he did sometimes teach much of what Jesus said about following the Spirit of the Law, not adhering to the words. Such as being ‘born again’ into spirit. And then you will be ‘babes in Spirit’ with much to learn just as being born into flesh you were a baby with much to learn. I admit I think I’ve always questioned Paul’s motives in founding the Church, being as he was a zealot who reveled in tracking down and bringing in anyone who was following Jesus’s way of living, but in the end at least he helped get some of the message Jesus taught out to the world.

There is strong evidence that Jesus was not the Christ whom the Jews were waiting for nor the equal of God, or God incarnate, God “made flesh”. He certainly wasn’t the Christ that the Jews expected. If he believed he was God “only begotten Son” then he wouldn’t have, while in the garden before the Romans arrested him, asked God to remove the cup he was being given but saying that if it was God’s will, then he’d accept the suffering he knew would come. I’ve read the KJV and NRSV several times over many decades and majored in Religious Studies in college. Since age 12, when I first began to read the Bible, I saw that what I was being taught in church often didn’t match Jesus’ words. I’m not a Bible scholar in any sense of the word and would never claim to be and I always fear that I might lead someone astray from their path to finding God. That would, according to what Jesus taught, be an unforgivable sin.

And you’re right that it takes suffering to find God, but Jesus didn’t remove the requirement that we each must suffer the travails of this world if we want to follow the way Jesus told us to live our lives.

And why wouldn’t the Church be meant to heal people of their misconceptions? Jesus said he didn’t come to heal the healthy, he came to heal the sick. Those who ignore what God has put in every man’s heart, those for whom the Law was written, those who think they can be saved by tithing and by following every letter of the Law but ignoring the Spirit behind it. Those who simply think that by calling Jesus the Christ, Lord and Savior, will save them. It won’t because doing that falls far short of what Jesus told us to do.

I think that’s where Christianity fails.