The Jesus in which we must believe and to whom we must surrender must be the Jesus of the Bible. An imaginary Jesus, who didn't prove His victory over sin and death by the resurrection, is no Savior.

More Gurnall for LR
"It is natural for every man to desire to accommodate his lusts with such conceptions of God as may be most favourable to, and suit best with, them. God chargeth some for this: Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself, Psalm 50:21."
(In man's image and imagination, man created god. See Isaiah 65:2)