Was the character deified by the early Christians by reinterpreting existing scriptures?
There is no doubt that Jesus was an important human being who drew crowds and greatly impacted his followers. If we think that Jesus died in April of the year 30 or of the year 33, in a process of about 70 years after his death Jesus was deified. In the ancient world it was normal for a person to become deified but this does not mean that we know exactly what the divine position of Jesus was. In worship it is clearly known that there is only one king and that king is God the Father and that Jesus, divinized, has a throne on his right. Therefore, there would be two powers in heaven, both divine but not equal. However, the divinization of Jesus for the early Christians was never an attack on monotheism.
