His main ideas. Accommodate the Roman trading system, engage in peaceful exchange, get gains from scale with cooperation, and money should be utilitarian. Under his economic prescription the Jewish nation would have prospered. The Jewish revolt was a mistake.
Jesus Christ was likely a real person, a sensible social philosopher trying to guide the nation into modern trade. The parables about making abundances of fish and bread and wine by miracle were likely embellishments. The real message, at the time, was enterprise under peaceful exchange yields greater abundances. As the local carpenter's son, he might have grown up to be an economic adviser of local industry, a country trade lawyer, in a sense. I doubt he really considered himself any closer to god, the religious add on started 40 years after the revolt failed.
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