P-Marlowe
You wrote: "So, in your opinion was Jesus a heretic or was he a blasphemer?"
In my opinion Jesus was, and is, Lord. He is the Christ. He is the Savior. He is the Son of the Living God. He cannot be a blasphemer since He is all holy. He cannot be a heretic since He is perfect.
But you stated that he was not being crucified because he was a heretic, but because he was a blasphemer.
The fact is that the Romans crucified him because they had evidence that he was claiming to be the King of the Jews. That would be treason. The stated reason that the Jewish Authorities had sought to kill him was because he allegedly blasphemed. But the Jews had no authority in Roman Palestine to have anyone executed for blasphemy. So they trumped up a charge of treason. In actuality the Jewish Authorities probably could have cared less that Jesus claimed to be God, but their concern was that he, like Luther and Tyndale who followed, was a threat to their Religious authority. He directly challenged the authority of the religious leaders of his day and claimed that their traditions had made the word of God of no effect. For that reason the Jewish Authorities wanted him dead. They needed him dead. He was upsetting the apple cart.
In the eyes of those who crucified him Jesus was a heretic. Paul stated categorically that what he considered "the way" to worship God was what was referenced by his accusers as "heresy". In that sense Paul was a heretic. In that sense I too am a heretic.