The pharoahs were thought of as gods by their people. Did early Christians borrow the man-god idea from the Egyptians? In each case the person so ordained and their followers believed in the divinity of the man-gods. I believe that other defunct religions of the past also had a repertoire of human gods that walked the Earth, Hercules comes to mind for one. The making of a man into a god isn't new, so why is it accepted as fact?