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I simply don't think that's true, Martin Guerre. Look, either Jesus claimed to be God or he didn't. But all of those people who knew him best, his close friends and followers, all believe that he did. What you claim to be disagreement between the gospels, I claim is just a later gospel filling out what was left unsaid in an earlier gospel.
Yes, I'm quoting from I Cor 15 (or whereever that is), but as far as I call tell, Christ's rising from the dead is generally adduced in the epistles as evidence for his divinity.
For the record, I'm not claiming that C. S. Lewis was correct in saying that to say "Christ was merely a good man" is to be confused. I think he was, but I don't know how to argue well for that conclusion. I AM going to stick to my guns and say that anyone who does not believe in the divinity of Christ is not a Christian. Christians have believed in his divinity from the very beginning -- what makes you so much smarter than these people to say "No, sorry, we've been mistaken for 2000 years"?
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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