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The Gnostic version makes more sense, as far as religions go. To them God with a capital G had thoughts and these thoughts emanated from Him. Two of the thoughts were Christ and Sophia.
Sophia then wanted to eminate a new creation like God had, but she did it wrong, and created a malformed deity. This new deity couldn't see God, Christ, Sophia, etc, so it thinks it's the only god, and this is the god in the Bible.
Yadda yadda Christ manifests itself on earth to teach people all of this so that they can transcend past the malformed deity and rejoin with Sophia. Basically Christ tricks the biblic god in order to save us.
That's a very brief summary. It's pretty cool stuff if you're interested in creation myths.
FTFY :) But yes it's fascinating stuff (and the Church hated it for obvious reasons)
Or another way to read it is that Jesus was just another in a long line of false Jewish prophets who led people away from The Law.