How did Jesus become God? Because it was a time when people were creating gods. Nobody made a god out of Joe Magarac, for example, because by the 19th/ 20th-century, creating new gods had become a taboo, therefore people create saints who are godlike creatures. So instead of becoming a God of steelworkers, Joe Magarac became a patron saint of steelworkers.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
