Actually I didn't read the translated version, I read the Greek version. The New testament was written in Greek.
The fact is that Christ is a part of the Trinity. Saying He was Son of God, means that he is an aspect of the Holy Trinity. It doesn't mean the physical son, as in birth from a physical body, nor creation.
When He came to earth to save us He lived as a perfect man. So He was the perfect human and the perfect God in one. He sometimes used the Son of Man phrase to emphasise that.
We are not reciting things by rote here. We are saying what we believe and we are thinking for ourselves. Our opinions may be different, but each one thinks differently.
As to why we are here and what we are doing on earth, and what is God, welcome to the club. People have been trying to answer that since millenia before.
My personal take on this matter, (and yes, it is my thoughts and belief, not those "indoctrinated" by others) is that we should live our lives as Christ did, trying to be as perfect as we can, with the ultimate goal of joining God in Heaven, and retaining our individuality.
Is god unity or triplicity? You say triplicity but I don't think that makes sense. Why the number three rather than say 400, what is so special about three? Why a Father, Son, and Holy Ghost why not a Father, Son, or Mother or even better instead of trying to make it all seem so human why not just a God and nothing else. Seems kind of polytheistic to me and at the very least the biggest religious paradox I can think of. There are a lot of Christians who don't believe the doctrine of trinity even! You say Jesus saying he was the son of god means that he is part of the Trinity but I don't ever recall anyone quoting him as saying he was part of a trinity. If you could find where he describes the trinity and his place in it for me that might help.
Also if you could define perfect man for me that would be good too. If it implies martyrdom I am not sure I agree but there are plenty of suicide bombers who do. If you truly lived your life like Jesus then you would be very poor, living off charity like a bhuddist monk and spending your days wandering the world talking about God until someone killed you for it. I am not saying this is a bad way to live either, I am just saying thats my understanding of Jesus' lifestyle.
Whatever language someone else decided to use to describe Jesus years after his death is not nearly as important to me as the fact that Jesus didn't write any book at all and I think if he had it would have been in hebrew since that is the traditional holy language. Maybe all the things attributed to Jesus in the bible really occured, that is really besides the point to me when you consider the interpretations of those events is entirely between the reader and the writer both of which are not Jesus.
Also what exactly did Jesus save anyone from? Sin? Hell? Those annoying animal sacrifices? I am really not clear on that at all since both of those things still exist in MOST(not all) Christian theologies. Also it seems to me that if the idea of repentance and atonement was along before Jesus then even "asking Jesus to come into your heart and forgive you of your sins" is not really such a new idea at all except for switching God with Jesus. It seems to rest entirely upon the concept that God is unreachable except by Christians and that smacks of too self serving to me.
I have spent a good portion of my life trying to understand why people believe the things they do and have researched more about religions than most people I know and still cannot explain these basic things to any satisfaction. I know there are plenty of more educated people than me and perhaps some of you folks can explain these things in some sort of logical way without resting on even more convoluted paradoxes.
Did Mary have a virgin birth and if so why? Why did Mary have to suffer childbirth when the baby could have easily fallen from the clouds. Why the martyrdom too? Why does a horrific death have to be included in this at all? It happens all the time and did then too, its not as if it was unknown ground to anyone.
Messiah and Christ are words that mean savior to a people esp. Jews and Anointed one such as a priestking of ancient Judaism, as much as I can see how these things allude to divine ordinance I don't see why the leap is made to Man-God. Another thing that puzzles me about the perfection of Jesus is the debate over whether he married or had children. Some seem to stand on the side of lifelong virginity as part of the ideal of perfect even though in Genesis we are told to go make babies.
If we are meant to believe by faith without proof why did Jesus even let it be known he had any sort of divine lineage? Why not just do the whole death and ressurection thing and not tell anyone? Many people don't believe it anyway and those who do surely cannot prove it so why make the conflict arise at all? Why not just heal some folks and go up in a cloud?
It makes my tiny human brain hurt thinking about all these irrationalities but in the off chance I missed something about all this Jesus stuff I still ask myself about it all the time. Just like I ask myself whether reincarnation makes sense or not.
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