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In my opinion Jesus was either:
A. A crazy guy.
Just like there are crazy people in mental institutions today. People who believe their own thought-up stories and tell you about how they met with aliens or how the government is spying on them in such detail and so convincingly that if you did not know it was not true, you would be ready to believe them. He just happened to live in a time when people did not know better. I mean, if someone came up to you and told you a story like that today, you would laugh at them, or give them some change to leave you alone.
B. A really clever guy.
In every time period there are always individuals who think more openly than the general masses, and are able to use it to their advantage. Perhaps Jesus, seeing how gullible people are, made it all up. Maybe for personal gain (does not have to be monetary), just like a lot of the new religions, such as Scientology, or Joseph Smith and the Mormons (if you are a follower of either of those, I am sorry for offending you). Or perhaps he truly was a good person, and even though he knew he was telling made up stories, he knew it was a great way to reach the people and maybe help them be a better person as well. Perhaps he never even claimed his stories to be fact, perhaps he was just a great and loved storyteller, and history just ended up making him into some Godlike being. Either way, he definitely achieved fame, since we are talking about him today.
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