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?

I haven't read Dan Brown's book, although I saw the movie. But his ideas were clearly taken completely from the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail series of books by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. That book and it's sequels were quite fascinating to me. My first degree was in History and I have always had a keen interest in history of the early Christian church. But while they were fascinating, there were large gaps in historical evidence bridged by conjecture. Many of the things that they suggested did seem logical, but there was no proof and their suggestions as to what occurred was only one possibility out of several or many. Really, there is no real proof that Jesus or Yoshua existed at all.

I'm not Christian whatesoever, so coming from this standpoint I would say that if he existed, Jesus was an ordinary man. Looking at it from a broader religious perspective, you have to wonder how other gods originated. Possibly Odin, for instance, was an actual man who lived during the Proto-Germanic period. Maybe he was well respected as being a wise leader and warrior, so they deified him. Maybe people have a need to have gods so they make them from the materials at hand. Perhaps many of the gods were originally ordinary men and women. I could easily argue against this, but it is an interesting thought that I wanted to throw out your way.

There are many possibilities and it is best that people throw off their religious indoctrination and see things without the blinders.