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Originally Posted by Ohio
Everything you said was true about Jesus, but you once again completely dodged the point.
John tells us in 5.18 that "the Jews sought to kill Him, not just because He broke the Sabbath, but called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God."
Three times in John chapter 8 Jesus told the Jews He was "I AM," the same name Yahweh/Jehovah gave to Moses.
How do you explain that Jesus is not God when He is Yahweh/Jehovah? Are you now saying that God did not appear to Moses?
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Ohio, in chapter 9.9 we have a blind man healed by Jesus say I Am, with the translators adding He, I Am He. It is the exact same phrase Jesus uses in chapter 8. I certainly would not draw a conclusion that the now seeing blind man was the great I Am, Yahweh. I think you must know that John was not written in Hebrew, but we observe it in Greek, and more than likely Jesus spoke Aramaic to the people in chapter 8. So to say that saying I am, and not adding the typical implied he, may lead you to think this is some great clue that you picked up, but it seems no one else made the assumption.
Please read through John Chapters 6 to 10, and you will see that the ongoing question is if Jesus is the messiah- Jesus says I Am He. As you read through those chapters look carefully how God is presented and how Jesus refers to God. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.