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"Jesus never claimed to be God"

Yes, He did. And He is. Lets look at how many times Jesus claimed to be God - a 🧵✝️ Image
John 8,58 “Jesus answered them: ‘I solemnly declare it: before Abraham came to be, I AM.”

This was the name God gave himself when he first communicated with Moses, Exodus 3,14:
> "God replied, ‘I am who am.""; Then he added, ‘This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you."Image
John 10,30: ”The Father and I are one.” Image
John 14,8-11: “’Philip,’ Jesus replied, ‘after I have been with you all this time, you still do not know me?Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?… Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe because of the works I do."Image
Matt. 11,27: “Everything has been given over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son but the Father, and no one knows the Father but the Son – and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” Image
Matthew 9,5-7: “Which is less trouble to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’ or ‘Stand up and walk?’ To help you realize that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” – he then said to the paralyzed man – ‘Stand up! Roll up your mat and go home.’ The man stood up and went toward his home.”Image
John 10,37-38: “If I do not perform my Father’s works, put no faith in me. But if I do perform them, even though you put no faith in me, put faith in these works, so as to realize what it means that the Father is in me and I in him.” Image
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