"You propose that the Biblical Jesus was a folk hero of sorts, a human given divinity in tales after his death?"

It's an entirely new idea for Daneel, but his experience with religion of any sort of is very limited; the Bible has very little circulation on Spacer worlds. He knows the Bible, but only because he needed to, once, to try to understand. He had thought it all very unlikely.

"I'm not sure your comparison is accurate, Tony." He shakes his head very slightly. "I am not a visionary. I do not philosophise. I have only ever done what I thought was right. If I have attempted to change the world around me it is only because I see circumstances that will bring harm."