You are not hijacking it. It goes in line with what I am talking about.
Now, you mentioned that it talks about how much prophecy was fulfilled. Yet, when I read about Jesus I see teachings. Which makes me wonder, were these teachings (which people of the time seeing as value) justified by adding on supposed prophecy fulfillments? If you are talking to an uneducated mind, and trying to get a point across. Would you agree, that adding in super-natural elements, would make them all the more appealing and worth listening too?
The churches, have shown by example that they know and value the concept of adding on to make the power of their authority and word something to listen too. Does a preist seem powerful, in common threads or in the robes and colors of the church? With this in mind, it shows through generations of growth. That the church knows the super-natural element and the teachings themselves, must go hand and hand or else they loss that value of 'I want to listen.'
If mankind knew the teacher of these thoughts was just a man, not a God, it would have been seen as opinion and not law. Buddha was a man too, but you let centuries pass and people passing along his positive thoughts and guess what, 'He is godlike too.' You just have to simply acknowledge on thing about all world religions and even Christianity. These were not born in universites of today, the common era, these were born in the primitive times of man. Times in which people still saw the Sun as god, the earth as flat and were confused by the death of the body. I know it feels good to accept otherwise, to feel inside that he is a savior.
A savior means, this time of hardship in pain has purpose and promised future! As a parent, I know the value of telling a child that if they do something they really dislike, they get a reward. It motivates them, encourages them in hard times and gives me the control I need at the time. Why would we not think that churches would be any different.
Now do not get me wrong, I believe in a divine. I just do not think we view how the thoughts of Jesus are heard, versus how they are empowered. We want to see what the church tells us, as it is the church, just look deeper and you chip away logic on the idea of Jesus. Perhaps in time you start to see a simple man with positive thoughts, who was simply used to make people do what people in authority wanted. I think the divine has spoke many times thoughtout human history, and still to this day. Some of those who spoke, wrote and taught ... we turned in to gods and religions. It was just the primitive of man, and we have to see that.
