The problem though is that in actuality you don't read the Bible through the lens of Jesus. You understand the Bible as being inerrant, so that if the Bible says that God commanded His followers to publicly stone people to death or to commit genocide then you believe that to be historical. That though is completely incompatible with Jesus' command to love your enemy, turn the other cheek etc, The enemy at that time was considered to be the Romans, and that specifically at the time was who Jesus would be referring to. Your understanding of inerrancy is also completely incompatible with Jesus telling them to release the woman caught in adultery.
Jesus came to save in His first Advent. He will come in vengeance when He comes the second time. This is very clear in what he read in the synagogue in Isaiah about His mission to comfort, when He left out the line about God's vengeance, which is pushed forward to the Second Coming. We live in the salvation dispensation.
Jesus also does not teach about judgment on whole nations, except for the prophecy of the fall of the temple in 70 AD, but that was a major theme in the Old Testament, one I believe we are to take to heart in relation to our nation and all nations today. I believe the US is under Judgment by God and if we don't repent things can only get worse. But Jesus taught us as individuals, not as nations.
It is a choice. As a Christian you can believe that the "Word" of God is a library of books or it is Jesus. It can't be both.
Yes it can, and it is.
For that matter the Bible says that in Jesus the "Word" was made flesh. Neither the Bible nor Jesus says that the "Word" was embodied by a book.
Both are God's communications to the human race, and they do not contradict each other.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.