I've given you guys a brief overview of what [they] believe, what /ourguys/ apear to believe and my general perspective on things.
A historical and biblical figure, as presented in The Bible, likely didn't exist.
If he did exist, though, he was a stocky, short and loved to eat magic mushrooms. When he was young, he must have had some type of accident and began feeling very odd at an early age.
It appears wisdom found him around his teens or early twenties and he spent some time traveling about, most say Tibet, and learning how to raise the serpents (probably without knowing that was what he was doing).
The time he spent in the desert was seemingly a psychedelic trip taken with his friends.
It appears he never did get crucified and if he did, he had become adept at certain trance/meditative techniques that allowed him to appear dead and ultimately escaped.
He supposedly had a daughter and either died in India or Japan and taught extensively what we would call "esoteric" or "occult" today.
If he wasn't quite as much a genuine and historical person, the story serves as an allegory of sorts, one dealing with the rising of the sun (Dawn Bringer/Morning Star) in the morning and SETing in the evening (now you understand the whole Light and Dark Jesus thing, explanations that suggest he had a twin, etc). This suggests The Bible is solar allegory, which explains the process of daily geophysical development.
It goes further though: some suggest The Bible is a tool that helps you open all seven (or nine… depending on who you talk to) chakras and raise The Christ yourself.
I'm partial to a combination of the general theories. I actually enjoy both of them being the case. I like to think The Bible was an ancient warning and toolkit. The one you call "Jesus" appeared to have known very special and hidden knowledge, likely bordering upon the same rhetoric/comprehension that many here display.
I believe his insight and intrinsic Wisdom has reverberated for generations, largely in secret, in order to emerge in the coming years.
Christianity today is a bastardized and bloated explanation of what "Jesus" was attempting to do - which essentially outlines a script/manual that should show the reader how to do what "Jesus" did.
The reason his followers became so closely scrutinized was because [they] have been around for much longer than you're allowed to imagine and they've been vying for control ever since. The first Christians went underground and hid their practices. The practiced what you would today call Magic(k).
It appears the ones The Church has slandered, calling them Gnostics, which appear to be what many know today as Freemasons, were the early followers of the movement of "Jesus". Unfortunately, they seem to have been infiltrated and confused, declawed and fragmented for quite some time now, likely before this great country was ever even established, hence the founding fathers stealing a thing or two from the orders.
I don't really want to say much more for fear of being even more verbose.
I'm told I still have a lot to learn. Take it with a grain of salt and, as always, do your own research.