My idea is not call a religion. It should be you having a relastionahip with God our father and trying to live like Jesus when he was on Earth. He was like older brother to all of us and we should follow in his foot steps.
Tell no I don't know why!
Actually Wayne,
You are mostly correct.
I can explain with a story though.
In Israel during the time of Jesus' ministry the school system wasn't mandatory...but just about every self-respecting Jew sent their children there anyway.
There were three levels of education.
The first was Bethgashepher.
There you learned how to read and write and the history of your people. They used the first five books of the Bible....and the students memorized them. Their letters were also numbers and so you learned mathmatics by using them too.
If you did well enough you might go on to the second level called Bethmidrash. There you would memorize the rest of the Old testament and debate what the Torah (first five books of the bible) meant.
Then if your family was wealthy enough and you were one of the top students...then maybe you could ask a rabbi if you could follow him. If your family had enough status in the community and you were a good student and very well behaved the rabbi might say "yes" and then you followed him everywhere...and did everything precisely like he did. His mannerisms of speech, the way he ate his food, the way he walked and talked and even snored you would learn and do exacly like he did. They had an expression that went, "When you are a disciple you must follow so closely behind your rabbi that the dust from his sandals covers you"
IOW you were to become the rabbi you followed in every aspect of your life. Through you he would live on for a long long time.
Then one day he would turn around to you and tell you to go and make disciples...meaning that you were a rabbi in your own right.
And that was why Jesus said to Peter, "you didn't ask me, I asked you."
Or in other words..."I have faith in you Peter...even when you don't have faith in yourself"
And on Peter's tough days...that one sentence I am sure brought him a lot of comfort.