Jesus was never god. Tradition from 3rd century on made Jesus the Son, equivalent with God the Sun. Pagan got mixed into and corrupted true Christianity. Jesus was the first heavenly son of god, equivalent to Adam, the first earthly son of god. Jesus took Adam’s place and gave up a perfect, sinless life for the one Adam forfeited and doomed all of us, his children, to sin and death. Jesus prayed to his father and there are many other proofs against Jesus being the almighty and not part of a pagan trinity pantheon. We pray in Jesus’ name but not to him. We need to direct prayers to the same god Jesus directed his prayers to.   Like all stuff behind the scenes in government that anons now know about, the history of religion is very much the same way. Most of the truth has been obfuscated from the masses under layers and layers of lies. OP, the answer is not to deny religion; but rather to examine the Bible itself for how god want us to serve him and not the other way round. Other commenters are right about those verses taken out of context. Foreigners were not just any ol person. Way back then, culture in Middle East was very hospitable. Foreigners would go to the town square and someone would invite them to their house for meal and lodging. That was the kindness to foreigners the Bible is talking about. There were other strict laws about theft and covetousness. Those could hold death penalty under Jewish law.   Jesus summed up the now defunct Law in two commands. Love god with your whole self and love your neighbor as yourself. If you allow one neighbor to harm another neighbor is that showing love to both? Absolutely not. Showing love means abiding by justice so we don’t skew over to the oppressors side.