Because unlike most characters in the Bible who were gifted powers from God just for having faith in him or by accomplishing tasks like keeping Samson's hair long in order to achieve superhuman strength. They all worked so hard for those powers, while Jesus was just born with it, causing miracles: curing the leper, curing the blind/deaf, turning water into wine, raising Lazarus of Bethany from the dead, and so on, according to the New Testament gospels. Jesus is also the only biblical prophet who was born from a virgin birth, unless you count God impregnating Mary because ancient Israelites aren't stupid regarding reproduction as seen in Onan's tale from Genesis 33 where Onan didn't want to have children with his brother's widow Tamar, so he spilled his seed on the ground, which caused God to kill him. It is quite bothersome to have both the father and the son to be both considered "god", it doesn't make sense regarding the monotheistic nature of the Abrahamic religions, and it doesn't make sense for two people to exist at different places at the same time, like Jesus on the cross talking to his father, with things like "Father, why hast thou forsaken me?" or "Father, please forgive them, they don't know what they're doing". He might as well be talking to himself. There's nothing to be ashamed of considering Jesus a demigod. Gods can't die, in which case I mean the father(Yahweh), while demigods can die, depending on circumstances, like in Greek mythology, both Perseus and Heracles are demigods, since they're children of Zeus, a god, and human mothers. Perseus died by using Medusa's head on himself at such an old age due to blindness because he thought it was useless, therefore he turned into stone, while Heracles died because he was poisoned with a tunic, then sacrificed himself on a funeral pyre, which burnt only his mortal side, with his immortal side remaining, he achieved godhood. Jesus did die crucified, even though he has divine powers and could wipe out humanity, if he wants to, but decided to die anyways, as a supposed sacrifice for every single one of men's sins.
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