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THE ANSWER:  Just for the record, the answer is a most emphatic NO!  Before going any further with this interview I need to explain something.  It was precisely some of those most ridiculous and unrealistic events and attributes that were only later attributed to me that gave rise to the necessity for this interview.  I am certainly aware of those events that I had personally experienced some two thousand years ago as well as those bits of knowledge and understanding that I had acquired through my own personal discovery and education.  In order to answer this question and perhaps many of the other questions that will certainly be presented to me in a fashion that is understandable to most literate individuals I must naturally rely on the accumulated knowledge of this man, Lamah with whom I presently share this unusual state of consciousness.  This question is a good example.  It appears that many events and attributes that have been laid on me were created to serve the purposes of those who had need of such heavenly authority that would have naturally come only with those erroneous claims of my acquired divinity.  In order to give you a more reasonable explanation of my rather curt answer to this question, I need to explain the probable events that led to my being referred to as this divine Son of God.  First of all, I was born a Jew and naturally inherited the social traditions and religious beliefs of my own people.  My own people had a long history of conflict and oppression and it was not unreasonable for them to hope for and to be seeking someone to deliver them from their unwanted afflictions and often-time slavery.  The time of my birth and life is a good example of the hardships often experienced and endured by my people.  This hoped-for king or deliverer was traditionally referred to as the Messiah.  Even though that title of Messiah was later attributed to me, it should be noted that the Hebrew powers that be during my own lifetime never considered me as being that hoped-for Messiah.  As to my being referred to as someone equal to God, that was just one of those more unrealistic attributes that didn't actually come into being until some three hundred and twenty-five years after the estimated and reported time of my crucifixion.  The sum of this Judeo-Christian culture, and most particularly the Christian religions, was essentially a political creation first conceived at a critical time when the Roman Empire was in dire need of a social/political structure that would help control and pacify the some ninety percent of its population who were essentially slaves.  It was during the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine, sometime between the years of 306 and 337, most probably around the year 325 that the selected leadership of some of the various Jewish sects that were directly associated with my teachings were assembled for the sole purpose of solidifying a centralized and principal body of beliefs that would best serve what was to become the official religion of the entire Roman empire.  It was in fashioning this then designated Christian religion to fit into these Greco-Roman traditions that first gave rise to the idea of my being by necessity a God.  It was a Greco-Roman belief that only gods had immortality, and if the Roman powers that be were to ever consider the full acceptance of a new religion, that newly conceived religion had to have its origins somehow associated with an immortal god.  The reality at that time even to my own Hebrew devotees was that I was only a man, and a man that had no recognizable title or reason to be considered a god.  All that I ever had or expected was an enthusiastic following of people who would have willingly adopted my philosophy and approach to what I saw as the ultimate salvation of my own oppressed people and truly no one else, as my concern was for the Hebrews.  I had hoped to accomplish this rather lofty goal by simply insisting that each and every individual was naturally entitled to a life of joy that was not encumbered by any form of slavery whether by some civil authority or religious autocracy; referring of course to Rome and Judaism respectfully.  If you will recall, my ministry to the people was always outside the confines of the temple and the harsh restrictions of the Hebrew religion.  My ministry was also at a time when the Hebrew people were under the ruthless and oppressive rule of Rome.  It was my rather radical and vocal objections to both the oppression of Rome as well as the narrow-minded autocracy of the Hebrew clergy that eventually led to my crucifixion.  And then, in the year 325, I was somehow transformed in to this rather mystical god-like figure; a rather ingenious transformation that required some pretty creative manipulations of reality.  There was no question that I had actually lived and walked amongst my people as one of them; flesh and blood just like any other mortal.  There was, after all, a most reasonable and acceptable Greco-Roman solution.  The Greco-Roman mythology often attributed to its principal god, as with the example, Zeus, the uncanny ability of impregnating mortal women.  The resultant offspring that were born to these mortal women often inherited the attributes of a god including that of immortality.  The various Jewish sects that were in large part faithful to my simple teachings simply rejected the rather ludicrous idea of some pagan god impregnating my mother just so I could be considered a god.  So Constantine, in his political wisdom suggested that the God of the Hebrew tradition must have been responsible for the conception of this individual known as Jesus, particularly if I was to have been considered as an acceptable God.  That was no doubt the initial inception of the grand idea that I was necessarily a god, and at the same time not being God himself, I became known as the divine Son of God.  The reality remains that I was only a man; a man with a simple message designed specifically for his own people and certainly applicable for anyone else or any religion that truly sought life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for any individual that may have otherwise been oppressed by their circumstances.  That was all I ever actually proposed with the hope of bringing a bit of joy to those hungry Hebrew commoners who were incessantly oppressed, and it was precisely my rather modest success with these usually downtrodden brothers and sisters that got the uncanny attention of Constantine.