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Divinity is certainly applicable to allegorical figures. Most people don't accept the historical existence of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, Lot, Job, etc. Sure, they could be mythologized amalgamations of what were once real people -- like Odysseus and Arjuna, for instance. But you can still be a Jew without believing in the literal Adam and Eve. And the historical Jesus is immaterial to Christian doctrine anyway.
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But I am cautious about the use of divine because it can mean a number of different things to Christians - there are varying understandings of Jesus' divinity.
So for the purposes of establishing necessary and sufficient conditions for being a Christian, we have to qualify our use of divine so as to not exclude certain understandings of Jesus' divinity, if we are going to use the measure at all.
I'm not so sure the historical Jesus is immaterial to Christian doctrine. Personally, I'm not worried about the matter, but some organizations seem to be attached to his historical existence. It is immaterial to me, but I'm not sure it's immaterial to all Christians. The fundamentalists are Christians, after all. They may seem more like Paulists sometimes, but they would claim otherwise.