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Jesus never claimed to be God, really?

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The idea that Jesus never claimed to be God would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic. The entire Bible is filled with clues as well as clear declarations of the divinity of Christ.  But perhaps my favourite go-to section of the Bible to show this is John 8, 9 and 10. In chapter 8 Jesus proclaims Himself to be the I am of the old testament. (John 8:58) In chapter 10 Jesus declares Himself as one with the Father. (John 10:30). But it is in chapter 9 that we see Jesus do something that only God can do. In chapter 9 we see Jesus heal a man who was blind from birth. But he heals him in a way that the man has never seen Jesus. He goes to wash at the pool of Siloam and comes back seeing.  Instead of giving him a chance to rejoice, he is immediately met with scepticism. Once Everyone including the Pharisees realizes that he was actually born blind they cast him out since it is quite obvious that he sees that Jesus is special and the Pharisees hate Christ and want to kill him. What f...