Your statement: "The Budist is a Christian." Just rubbed me the wrong way.
"First: Who is Jesus?
He is God. The only begotten Son of the Father.
"Jesus often used symbolic language, and when He said “I am the way...” He meant that LOVE, the Divine Love is the way to Heaven."
No, Christ's words weren't symbolic. Jesus meant, quite literally, that HE is WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE. Jesus died a sacrificial death for us on the cross. There is no other way to heaven but to accept His gift of grace.
But, if you really are interested in the truth, you have to recognize the facts as facts and not to twist them in order to fit yours or somebody elses views. When you see a tree you have to acknowledge you see a tree, not just one of its many branches.
Let's analyze one basic thing, not a deep one.
If Jesus is the son of God and you say Jesus is God then how many Gods are out there?
Jesus many times Himself said that God is His Father.
I'll mention one place only. The Lord's prayers.
“Our Father in Heaven ...... “
If you say Jesus is the manifestation of God I'll agree with you. But I'll disagree that literary Jesus is God who came in human flesh and blood. I am ready to accept any idea provided it makes sense to me.