IF JESUS NEVER CALLED HIMSELF GOD...

(I have no personal comment...)

If Jesus had not been declared God by his followers, his followers would’ve remained a sect within Judaism – a small Jewish sect and it would not have attracted a large number of gentiles,” states historian Bart Ehrman. “During his lifetime, Jesus himself didn’t call himself God and didn’t consider himself God and none of his disciples had any inkling at all that he was God."

https://www.amazon.com/Nosca-Khalid/e/B01NA7APYQ