Wrong? There's no wrong, only "what is right for my needs" in that particular time.

You're right, Metta meditation (love meditation) is important and can lead to full awakening - but as we all know there is all sorts of other kinds of meditation techniques as well, that all are equality functional.

The problem with people writing down a teacher's words for future readers is that the teacher's words are for the people that the teacher is talking to, for their needs and requirements, and it doesn't necessarily apply to you or me.

Great Great teachers like Jesus don't come along very often, but there are pretty decent ones out there, and having a live teacher as a guide is of great benefit, because that teacher knows what you need at that moment, see?

We do like to formulate a system of worship around the teachers of the distant past, humans!