If we look at all the evidence, the conclusion is unavoidable that Jesus saw himself as being God. In a variety of ways, Jesus showed that he considered himself to be God; that he was God’s Son; the Lord, the Son of Man, the ‘I AM’. Certainly, as the letters of the New Testament show, the earliest Christians considered Jesus to be someone who was God and whom they could worship.

In considering this claim, we need to remember that Jesus was speaking in the Jewish world, which fervently believed there was only one God. If Jesus had been an Eastern mystic or a New Age teacher, for him to say that he was God would not have been a big issue; in such belief systems we are all, in some way, divine. But in Judaism there was only one God.