The holy faith of reformed samaritanism

Will Hebrew believers “get lost” for refusing to believe Jesus to be God in the flesh? 
When it comes to our everlasting destiny, it wouldn’t be wise to risk it by taking unnecessary chances. 
Granted-- there's a remote possibility of Jesus (peace and blessings be upon him) being a manifestation of 
God in the flesh, but the fact is that [unlike the God who spoke to Moses] Jesus didn't personally write 
anything; So, all we have from him is private/third-party “hear say”. 
On the other hand, Moses actually wrote his five books of Torah, and they contained the words of the public 
revelation made by God to over 2 million Israelites. 
In fact, Moses writings not only referenced God's personal writing (the Ten Commandments, written by God 
himself upon the two stone tablets) but also claim to be complete, not needing any future addition and/or 
modification (“And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book,
until they were finished, That Moses commanded the Levites... Ye shall not add unto the word which I 
command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it...”- Deuteronomy 31:24-25, & Deuteronomy 4:2, 
KJV). 
And since the gospel writers freely acknowledge the fact that God not only spoke personally spoke to Moses 
(“.. have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of 
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?”- Mark 12:26, KJV), but also that Moses himself 
wrote his books of Torah (“For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me”- 
John 5:46, KJV), It is safe to stick to Moses public revelation [which is by the way the very definition of 
being a Samaritan believer]. 
But what if we are wrong, and Jesus is indeed God in the flesh? Will that make us lose our good share in the 
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World to come? of course not! Why? Because the God of the Hebrews is perfectly righteous (“He is the 
Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is 
He”- Deuteronony 32:4, KJV), and therefore never behaves like a religious tyrant, nor as an ideological 
dictator. 
And even the Jewish Scripture bears witness of this, when it goes on to relate the story of God rewarding a 
whole family (The House of the Rechabites). For what reason were they rewarded? For their act of disbelief/
disobedience to the words of a prophet (Jeremiah)!. 
And why would God reward them for refusing to believe and/or obey the words of His anointed messenger? 
Simply because their disobedience was the result of an honest and sincere belief that man ought to stand firm
by the words of fidelity exchanged between him and his father (which by the way is also intimated in the 
verse that goes on to say, “Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?... He that
sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not...”- Psalm 15:1&4, KJV). 
As is written: “And I [Jeremiah] set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and 
cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of 
Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever... Thus 
have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us... And 
Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye 
have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all
that he hath commanded you: Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of 
Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever”- Jeremiah 35:5-8, & 18-19, KJV. 
And it goes without saying that, if God was so pleased with the Children of Rechab for holding fast to the 
promise of fidelity made by their fathers to Jonadab, how much more will He be pleased with the Children of
Israel for holding fast to the promise of fidelity [to God's Law] made by their fathers to “Jehovah”; a promise
to be God’s people, and for Him to be their only God. 
As is written: “Thou hast avouched the Lord (YHVH) this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to 
keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: And the Lord 
hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep 
all his commandments; And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, 
and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken”- 
Deuteronomy 26:17-19, KJV