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As far as I understand the prophesies for the mesiah, he was only supposed to create a better physical world. the messiah prophecy had nothing to do with the afterlife or salvation from eternal damnation. The prophecies were changed by the followers of Jesus after his death to try and fit them to him in a effort to make him seem the mesiah. Suddenly instead of the messiah creating a type of heaven on earth(peace and love among all mankind), it was, oh wait, that's not what was really meant, it actually meant that if you believe in Jesus and ask for forgiveness you'll be saved in the AFTERlife.
So I had to vote for something else. I think that Jesus could be better compared to a cult leader, because Christianity was just a cult for the first few hundred years it was around. He gathered a group of followers that radically went against many of the "modern" beliefs, a.k.a. a cult.I do not believe he was the son of God or a true prophet, and I'm pretty sure he wasn't a rabbi, although he was Jewish. As for being a trickster and a fraud, I doubt it, as far as I've heard he wasn't exploiting his followers and mooching off of them for personal gain.
Oh, and 1 and 4 are really the same thing, the Christian god, Jewish god, and Islamic god are all the same god(except for the Christian inclusion of Jesus), and since a true messenger of God is a prophet, if you believe in one, you beleive in the other, because Allah and God are one and the same.
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