This universe was willed into existence. and we were given free will. Free will is much more than just a right to choose for one’s self.
If Christ taught things that required faith then why was he feared by the religious leaders of his day? He was teaching truth.
To know something or to have faith in something. I have faith that if I stand in front of a speeding train I will be greatly injured/killed.no. Rather i know i will be injured.
Likewise the soul knows when it hears truth.Why else would Christ’s words stir the hearts of so many? Why else did it bring fear to the religious leaders of his time?
To say he was the son of god or even that he was god does not seem like something the leaders would have feared. That would only make “Jesus” sound crazy. Plus that would not have taken away the power that the Pharisees had.
No Christ was teaching something so against what the people had been taught that he had to be stopped.