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Except that doesn't happen in the Timeless Child arc. At all.
Where in the arc does it suggests the Doctor is deified? Or has any kind of magical powers, other than a biological ability to regenerate? An ability, it should be pointed out, that leads to the Doctor's contribution to Time Lord society basically coming down to the child being a petri dish that Tecteun experimented on.
Further, as others have said, the Doctor's memory of everything before One's childhood was erased. So everything that happened after that event remains exactly as we (and the Doctor!) remember. I'm curious, where in your space jesus parallel, does the Timeless Child in any way diminish the actions of the First Doctor?
At the absolute worst, it maybe suggests that on a subconscious level, the Doctor's desire to do good simply couldn't be suppressed and so he stole a Tardis (unknowingly, and with a little help from Clara, his Tardis!) and went off to be that wandering vagabond. And if the worst thing about a story is that a character we know is a good person turned out to have been a good person before we knew them... That just doesn't scream super-controversial to me.
I mean, in a lot of ways, it kinda makes sense of the sometimes contradictory reasons Doctor Who lore has given for why the Doctor left Gallifrey over the years. Because originally, he didn't really know exactly why he left... Just that it was the right thing to do.
I'm genuinely curious, what do you actually mean by "space jesus", in real, tangible, terms? How does it change who the Doctor is and what they've done? Because honestly, when it comes to turning the Doctor into some magical, omnipotent, God-like figure, the Timeless Child arc has got nothing on most of RTD's run on the show.