Actually, Jesus was just a man. Christianity is viewed in Judaism as heresy, since it completely went against Jewish teachings. Jesus - or Yeshua ben Joseph (Joshua, son of Joseph) was a young Jewish man living under the rule of the Jewish King Herrod. Yeshua was an extremely, unusually intelligent boy who often learned from monks and other mystics, and his parents, Miriam and Joseph, knew that he was special, only as far as his intelligence went. When he became an adult, he went on a journey to various places and learned Buddhism, Taoism, Paganism, Shintoism, and all sorts of ways to connect with the "divine" beyond the religion he was born into. When he came back, there were already several prophets, claiming themselves to be the fabled Messiah. King Herrod had them all hunted down and killed. When Yeshua began preaching his own teachings, his disciples hid him for years. Yeshua was absolutely nothing like what Christians today think of when they think of Jesus. His hair was black and curly, his skin was dark, and he only spoke about individually connecting with "God" - that all people had God inside them and were already connected.
When Herrod's army finally came for him, Yeshua had so many followers that by the time he died - and crucifixion was a very common method of killing; Yeshua was not singled out there - some of his disciples began tweaking his teachings to suit themselves. Two hundred years after he died, his messages had become so convoluted that the concept of Christianity became pretty far removed from Yeshua's teachings.

So, basically, Jesus was just a man. A smart man who said a lot of things, but just a man.