Our Lord Jesus Christ, Lord or Man? Options

During my internet years, I found info like Jesus married Maria Magdalena, went to India and studied there, that he did not die on the cross. I'm not sure what to believe in. Yesterday, I finished reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and in it I again read what I've found + Sarah, Jesus's daughter and how Constantine used the "perverted" new testament to make a god out of Jesus to win the Catholic over the Pagan. Altought the book has errors, it is still an interesting read.

What is your opinion on this? Jesus, the Lord or -just- a man?

What about the heretic theology of Johanites, being a millenium closer to Jesus than various contemporary claims ranging between "its a misogynist conspiracy" and "Jesus smoked weed and came from another planet!?

Mary was deceived by a man who came dressed as her husband and raped her, her husband didnt dump her since it wasnt her fault but restrained from having sex with her (for the obvious reason of "if she gets pregnant, I can be pretty sure its not mine", could have more fun if there was genetic testing back then), when the child was born, it was entrusted to Joseph the rabbi, who took the child to Egypt where the clergy has recognised him as Horus and initiated him into the cult of Osiris (the ressurected god, stylised engravings of a guy getting out of a box-osiris-have been found in early christian sanctuaries too). Understandably, when a person who isnt even wrinkled and crawly yet returns to Jerusalem and outsmarts the usual machiavellistic assortment of pricks that qualified as competent priesthood, trouble was quick to come.

Thus far the account of Johanites by Eliphas Levi in the History of Magic, who cut the very probable sounding account off by his usual "but its against the lawful hierarchy of the sovereign catholic church and hurts the ears of a good catholic" apologetic blahblah.

This post has been edited by Rakesh: Jan 31 2006, 05:19 PM