The cold hard fact is Jesus was never the Messiah, and he never calmed to be, other people did. To be the Messiah he would have to hold both the office od king in the line of David and the office of high priest. He never healed either.
Prerequisites for the messiah were that he would be high priest of the temple and king of the Jews. This man would gather all the nations conquered by the Romans together, defeat the Romans and become the new world emperor. Jesus did non of this. During his sojourn in dessert he was offered the...
Cults are juvenile religions. If they can survive the competition long enough they grow up to be full blown religions. They all start out wacko, but mellow with age.