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Originally Posted by metis
And we've seen this happen before. After Gandhi was martyred, many in the Hindu community began to deify him but, fortunately, Gandhi had stated and written many times he was not a deity (this needs to be qualified somewhat, if you know what I mean).
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We've also seen the reverse, when a figure some people believed to be a living deity dies, and some decide he or she wasn't God after all, but was still divinely inspired or speaking for God. I think it's possible the followers of Jesus may have felt that the Son of Man was also the Son of God/God, but some of his close companions might have moved away from that interpretation when he died and specific prophecies were not immediately fulfilled in the literal way they anticipated. Being individuals, they may have had various ideas about what Jesus was, and about what the crucifixion meant. I am guessing Jesus may never have made a definitive statement to them on that matter. Once when people wanted to know who/what He was, He turned the question right back to them.