To understand Jesus Christ as an enlightened human being is only to understand half of His story. There is a point at which faith enters the picture as well, which is an entire topic of its own, but first let us explore the nature of Jesus. He actually made it quite clear that He was God (I AM THAT I AM) in flesh, Christ the messiah. I won't start quoting scripture, but if you want to study the New Testament for evidence of this, it's there.
The significance of this is profound, because of the work Jesus did on the cross. Essentially, human beings cannot commune directly with the divine because of sin, because of impurity of our spirits / nervous systems (i.e. karma).
Spiritual traditions such as, for example, the eight limbed yogic path, are actually a blueprint for how to live life to dissolve as much karma in the nervous system as possible, so that one can someday experience yoga/oneness with Self and/or God. Within those traditions those who reach high levels of attainment, or even full enlightenment (buddhahood), sometimes become gurus and help their disciples along the path as described above, literally becoming one with their disciples and helping them dissolve the blockages in their nervous system (karma).
What Jesus Christ did was this: He took on all of the sin / karma of every single human being for all of eternity who accepts Him as their master (becomes His disciple), allowing any human being to achieve instant oneness (yoga) with God (the Holy Spirit – the bible describes the process as baptism by fire, and it is palpable). This is far beyond anything any human buddha has ever done or ever could do, and this is because Jesus Christ was God Himself. The process of bearing this karma/sin actually began long before He was crucified, but in the Garde of Gesthemane, wherein he began sweating blood as the weight of unfathomable sin began bearing upon Him (there is an ancient Chinese saying: "May you become enlightened in one week!", because such an experience would likely kill someone as they experience lifetimes worth of karma in a short period of time).
Jesus Christ exhibited perfect human enlightenment because the spirit of God Himself was indwelling the human body of Jesus, and the spirit of perfection cannot inhabit the temple without making the temple perfect. In essence, Christ's buddhahood was simply a side-effect of God Himself inhabiting a human body, and not only that, but that same transformative process of oneness with God leading to perfection of the temple (body) is open to anyone who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord.
Normally, oneness with (yoga) with God is not possible until after oneness with Self is achieved (human enlightenment). These ideas have been explored for millennia in spiritual texts, such as the concept of Atman (Self) and Brahman (God) in Hindu theology (though there have been arguments about whether Atman and Brahman are separate or not, for millennia – I think you can see where I stand on this matter).
In essence, Jesus Christ, as God manifesting Himself in human form, is the ultimate yoga master of all time, the King of all yogi Kings, in that He can instantly yoke you into oneness with God simply through loving devotion and faith in Him.
It is worth noting that one of the eight limbs of yoga is Bhakti yoga, which is loving devotion to a master, and throughout the ages many sages and gurus have declared that Bhakti yoga is the most powerful (produces fastest results) form of yoga. It is simply loving devotion through the heart chakra to God (or an Avatar).
Jesus Christ is the ultimate Avatar, because He was not a human being who achieved enlightenment and/or oneness with God, but He was God Himself in human form, offering direct discipleship to any human being who wants to experience yoga with God.
As the Holy Spirit inhabits the temple, God tranforms the temple over time to be perfect, so human biological enlightenment is in fact a byproduct of faith in Jesus Christ. This process has been seen throughout the ages in various saints and monks, a good example is Saint Francis of Assissi, who was known for lapsing into states of meditative ecstasy of oneness with God (the ecstasy is produced by the process of human biological enlightenment, i.e. the Kundalini process as described in Hindu tantra, called Tummo by the Tibetan buddhists).
This is why and how Jesus Christ is different than other human beings who have exhibited biological enlightenment throughout history, and the only way to truly prove it to yourself, ironically, is to experience the process of baptism by the Holy Spirit. It ultimately requires a leap of faith (faith is a type of magic).
I hope I have been able to clearly elucidate to you why I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, and why I seek to worship God who speaks the universe into existence, and not anything inside of that creation (my Self).