In Christianity, Jesus is the messiah and knowing that "Jesus is the messiah" is really important; I think knowing "Jesus is the messiah" is what makes a person a Christian.

Jesus is essentially a dead corpse. There is all resurrection stuff but it's pretty hard to prove that. But at least everyone agrees that Jesus is a dead Jewish corpse.
And Christians think that dead body is the messiah, the ultimate hero, the fulfillment of all human archetypcial desire...etc.

Humbled, humiliated the most, a total God's reject, totally dead Jewish guy is the messiah for Chiristians. It's pretty awkward at first.
Because when I think of a super hero, he has some kind of supernatural power, he listens to us and comes to help us from villains when we are in a trouble, picturing a dead body as a super hero doesn't make much sense. Of course Jesus did some kind of miracles. He fed many people, cured many diseases...etc. But he's essentially a dead body at the end.

At least Jesus is totally different from any other 'normal heroes'. Maybe that's why Jesus is the ultimate hero...
It makes me ponder why that helpless guy who's rejected from God is/or should be the messiah. So, there are two cases:

Case1: Jesus is the messiah. He's a dead corpse hung on the cross, but it makes sense because he IS the messiah. He is ultimate and has a bigger plan than any one of us can think of. Since we are not the messiah, but he is, we don't understand why that dead body is the messiah. This proves that we are short of knowledge and Jesus indeed is the messiah.

Case2: Jesus is not the messiah. He's just a dead body, not the messiah. Then, who's the messiah? We all know that we're waiting for the messiah. We all have been watching 'normal heroes' like King Arthur, LOTR, Spiderman, Peterpan, Hitler (for some folks)...But they are just shadows of the real hero, the messiah. And if Jesus is not the ultimate end of all the pointers, then we should wait for the end, the destiny to come...

How can I see that the corpse is indeed the messiah? Women knew, tax collectors knew, prostitutes knew, and other marginal human beings knew that. But some how the educated, people of importance, religious people didn't see the corpse as the messiah...What does this tell???