For thirty years, Jesus never allowed his divinity to manifest itself. He was infinitely superior to everyone but never showed it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
Jesus was nothing like I thought - He wasn't condemning. He was loving and leading.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
We must look at the personality of Jesus and see him under various circumstances - circumstances not unlike our own - and then praise him by imitating him to the best of our ability.
This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.
Obviously, you're trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytelling. I'm trying to get back to the absolute basic story of who was Jesus, what did he say, what was he teaching, and what did he do.
Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.
Jesus was a perfect example of following authority. He was subject to His earthly parents; he subjected himself to the laws of the land, and as God, he had the power not to do any of it.