This is what the scriptures testify...
Jn1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
In the begining was the word(Christ) and the word was with/besides God and the word(itself) was God. He was with God in the begining
For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it.
John 12:49
The Lord said to me
What they say is good. I will raise up from them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I WILL PUT MY WORDS IN HIS MOUTH AND HE WILL TELL THEM EVERYTHING I COMMAND HIM
Duet 18:18
Jn 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
I don't know what you get when you put (verse 1) with (verse 44) but I get that the WORD WAS GOD AND GOD WAS MADE FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US.
This could only be speaking of Jesus Christ in the flesh and their is NO CONTRADICTION as you presume, GOD WAS MADE IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH (Rom 8:3).
Jesus Christ was God in the flesh and was the exact expressed image of His person (Heb 1:3).
God was in Christ in the flesh, but Christ claimed to be the son of God and claimed only the Father was the one true God
Who, being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God (Phil 2:6).
In these verses there is no difference between the Father ad the Son. This is why when Christ as on the earth He could say without a single word of inaccuracy that ...
What was the bait used to tempt Eve to eat the apple?
Equality with God. She ate and so did Adam
But the second Adam did not take or desire such a bait and did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, and what was the result?
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name
that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow
in Heaven and on earth and under the earth
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER
if you have seen me you have have seen the Father (Jn 14:7-9) ...
because we are ONE (Jn 10:30) ...
That they(the believers) may be one AS we are one
John 17:22
So if we know how we the believers can be one we know how Christ and his Father are one
We the believers can only be one in the spirit, of one heart and one mind in the spirit but we are still individual people
That they may be one AS we are one
the Father was in the Son and the Son was in the Father (Jn 14:10,11, 17:21)...
That all of them may be one Father, JUST AS YOU ARE IN ME AND I AM IN YOU MAY THEY ALSO BE IN US
So do we have equality with God based on these verses?
These are all expressions of His divinity and diety that He had with the Father which differed not one iota.
'Philip why do you ask me to show you the Father... Have I been so long time with you and yet thou hast not known me?' (Jn 14:9)
Christ spoke the words his Father gave him to speak. He is a true reflection of who his Father is and showed the characteristics of his Father eg love, mercy, compassion, therefore the disciples had seen a reflection of who the Father is.
If that verse is taken literally as you would like then the Father himself was seen by the disciples, that is not possible
If you were Philip and you requested the Lord to show you the Father and the Lord replied to you as he did to Philip, what would you think that the Lord was saying?