JC was a Jewish-Buddhist (Enlightened-Jew). His students were nicknamed Nazarene-Jews. The term "Christian" did not even come up until a decade after he was gone. JC never wrote anything. The gospels were not class-notes written down as he taught, but were written many years later from memory & plagiarism (which makes me wonder even about the red-letters in red-letter editions). To make Nazarene-Judaism easy for pagan-Romans to accept, it was greatly edited by well-meaning Roman-Jew, Saul/Paul, who never even met JC and knew very little about him. What we call "Christianity" today, should more correctly be called Constantinianity, since it was totally re-designed by the murderous Constantine circa 312CE. If JC did in fact say he was God's son, he also said that God was everyone's father thus making all people the children of God. If he did in fact claim to be equal to God, he also said that his followers would do even greater things than he did, which would imply that his followers could become as perfect-as (egual-to) their father in the sky. And that's just another way of saying that each individual has an innate potential Buddha-nature which s/he can let blossom in this very lifetime, which is the emphasis of the SGI Buddhist faith-practice-&-study.
The term "Christian" did not even come up until a decade after he was gone. JC never wrote anything. The gospels were not class-notes written down as he taught, but were written many years later from memory & plagiarism (which makes me wonder even about the red-letters in red-letter editions). To make Nazarene-Judaism easy for pagan-Romans to accept, it was greatly edited by well-meaning Roman-Jew, Saul/Paul, who never even met JC and knew very little about him. What we call "Christianity" today, should more correctly be called Constantinianity, since it was totally re-designed by the murderous Constantine circa 312CE. If JC did in fact say he was God's son, he also said that God was everyone's father thus making all people the children of God. If he did in fact claim to be equal to God, he also said that his followers would do even greater things than he did, which would imply that his followers could become as perfect-as (egual-to) their father in the sky. And that's just another way of saying that each individual has an innate potential Buddha-nature which s/he can let blossom in this very lifetime, which is the emphasis of the SGI Buddhist faith-practice-&-study.