I am a Muslim. I have a practically pantheist approach in a way sufis preach (unity o being) . For me there are a few issues that has to be answered regarding Christian view of Jesus pbuh. Christians should answer, I mean.
1) The main problem is that we usually name beings with their attributes. If Jesus pbuh was a not a God while he was on Earth. Because, apart from the miracles which many Propehts has demonstrated before him, he was sharing the same attributes like an ordinary person. If we are talking about an eating and drinking god, we are not talking about the God almighty but most likely the gods of Roman mythology.
Can pantheism be an answer to this?
2) Great Muslim sufi Ibn Arabi depicts 5 layers of Being, Absolute Being at the beginning, and His expansion in 4 more layers, where 4th is the universe we live in.
In fact, Ibn Arabi puts it thorougly that despite unity in being there is a firm seperation between layers, namely God is God, man is man. Yet, God is the manifestation of the Absolute Being (Absolute Being is of course God, but I have difficulty with the terminology) in a lower level, so that He communicate and propagate His message to man. Understand it this way, He created the languages but by conveying His message through them He restricts Himself with things which He created. Same about time. Absolute Being (God) is free of time, but God in the books mention that He created Universe in 6 days.
Now one can say Jesus pbuh might be another restriction of Godly attributes. But then we are all in a similar position. I mean, in a pantheist view, If Jesus pbuh was God, then everbody, everthing is. But to me, only God is God.
3) I was planning to write on trinity and the catastrpohy three Gods might bring. But I realize that this will be irrelevant, because historically and theologically the trinity should follow from the supposed Godliness of Jesus pbuh. Not the vice versa. I mean trinity must be the theological construction to explain the supposed Godly nature of Jesus. And "Holy Spirit" belief might have arised to evade critisms I brought in the 1st question above.
Now, this was my original (not copy paste) thoughts on the issue. I hope Christians are tolerant enough to answer these in a proper manner.
Unite