There was no crucifixion or resurrection? It was all a hoax? Jesus did not die on a cross?
It was all for show? Judas did not betray Jesus? Some storyteller invented it?
God did not create Jesus. Jesus, like God, is eternal – no beginning no end. That’s a hard thing to wrap our minds around since everything in this universe has a beginning and an end.
Jesus is God in that He is the exact representation of God.
There’s a bit more to it than that. Jesus has always existed but as a spirit (just like God). However, He took on a mortal body (became human) so that He could become a perfect sacrifice to redeem us. Jesus was born into a physical body (just like ours) through Mary. Therefore Jesus was both human and God (incarnate). As a human, He went through the same things we go through - joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure, temptation, heartache, loneliness, and even death. Many see God as some far off deity who hasn’t have a clue what it was like to go through life here on earth. Since Jesus was human, He (being God) can understand us, our struggles, our fears, our loneliness, our heartaches, our joys.
You can “get where I am” at ANY age. One doesn’t have to know everything to follow Jesus. One simply has to believe that He is who He says He is, and be baptized into Him. Jesus is the Son of God. He came down to earth in the form of a man, died on a cross, and was resurrected 3 days later. That’s all one needs to know. That’s where I am. It starts with simple faith and grows eternally.