@Runningman
Let me try this from another angle.
Isaiah 42
8I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Here, the LORD, or Yahweh, or Jehovah plainly states that he will not give his glory to another.
Compare that to Jesus' prayer here:
John 17
3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
You requoted verse 3 earlier today, but what about verse 5? In other words, what about where Jesus prayed for the Father to glorify him with the glory that he had with him before the world was? Remember, we just read that the LORD, or Yahweh, or Jehovah will not give his glory to another, so how could Jesus have had glory with the Father before the world was unless he was the LORD, or Yahweh, or Jehovah as well?
By questioning Christ's divinity, you're actually diminishing Christ's sacrifice on our behalves. In other words, before his incarnation, Jesus was God, and not man. Since his incarnation, Jesus is both God and man, and the man part is very important. Seeing how a man, Adam. lost everything through his disobedience, Christ had to regain it all as a man by his obedience. The one who was the Creator has now been made heir of all things as both God and man, and has been restored to the glory that he once had with the Father before the world was as both God and man. This is extremely important because we can only become joint-heirs with Christ because he has been made an heir, in his humanity, or as a man, himself. Jesus, who was once only fully God, has now been made fully man as well, and he will remain in a place of willful subjection to his Father throughout all of eternity because this was what was required in order for him to redeem us and make us, as humans ourselves, joint-heirs with him. Again, God became both God and man, and the man part is what saves us.
Let me try this from another angle.
Isaiah 42
8I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Here, the LORD, or Yahweh, or Jehovah plainly states that he will not give his glory to another.
Compare that to Jesus' prayer here:
John 17
3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
You requoted verse 3 earlier today, but what about verse 5? In other words, what about where Jesus prayed for the Father to glorify him with the glory that he had with him before the world was? Remember, we just read that the LORD, or Yahweh, or Jehovah will not give his glory to another, so how could Jesus have had glory with the Father before the world was unless he was the LORD, or Yahweh, or Jehovah as well?
By questioning Christ's divinity, you're actually diminishing Christ's sacrifice on our behalves. In other words, before his incarnation, Jesus was God, and not man. Since his incarnation, Jesus is both God and man, and the man part is very important. Seeing how a man, Adam. lost everything through his disobedience, Christ had to regain it all as a man by his obedience. The one who was the Creator has now been made heir of all things as both God and man, and has been restored to the glory that he once had with the Father before the world was as both God and man. This is extremely important because we can only become joint-heirs with Christ because he has been made an heir, in his humanity, or as a man, himself. Jesus, who was once only fully God, has now been made fully man as well, and he will remain in a place of willful subjection to his Father throughout all of eternity because this was what was required in order for him to redeem us and make us, as humans ourselves, joint-heirs with him. Again, God became both God and man, and the man part is what saves us.
Jesus should have something that distinguishes him from a mere human and he should be able to have something we don’t have.
In John 17, Jesus went on to say this:
22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
So here we are just these regular disciples sharing in God’s glory. So does that make disciples of Jesus God? Or perhaps it makes them little gods? If sharing God’s glory is a trait of being God then it follows that if a disciple gets glory, too, then they also are God. Or we must scrap that idea and look for something else.