The Bible Does NOT say that Jesus is Almighty God in the flesh.

Being raised in first a Lutheran church and then a Baptist church, I was brought up in the doctrines of Christianity. I was taught that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, that Jesus was God in the flesh, and that when someone died they went to either Heaven or Hell.In my last two years of school, I took New Testament Greek as an elective study. It didn't take too long before I began to see that many of the assumptions I had about the Bible were indeed false.It began with the teachings of my preacher. There were times when he would tell his congregation the meaning of a word in the Bible, but he would be very wrong, though his flock didn't know the difference.Some years later, I found myself faced with the challenge of proving to a friend the divinity of Jesus. I must admit that I became a bit distraught upon finding that the evidence was rather lacking. Searching as best as I could, I found that many of the verses I had learned for the subject at hand only worked best if they came from the King James version and were taken out of context.I decided that I would do an objective study on the topic. I first tried to disprove the divinity of Christ, which I discovered was surprisingly easy. When it came time to prove Christ's divinity, as before, I found it near to impossible. It took a lot of resistance, but after about a year, I accepted that the only reasonable thing was to go with what the Bible really says, instead of what I had been told for many years.After all that I have seen in my study of the New Testament's original language, I have concluded that it is impossible for me to ever believe that Jesus and God are the same. And my despair slowly started to take a turn, as I looked upon the churches of today and beheld the people who claimed to be of God simply absorbing their pastors' words without question.You see, with an estimated 44,000 different denominations of Christianity all supposedly based on the Bible, every denomination cannot possibly be a reflection of what the Bible really says. Either one of them is right and the rest are wrong, or they are all wrong. So how, I wondered, could a person feel so confident in his or her Christian faith?In the years since my discovery about Jesus, I have tried to tell other Christians the truth. Sadly, their tendency is to become defense and get angry at me. I think this is because one's set of beliefs form a huge chunk of their identity, so if I were to expose some of their deep-seated beliefs as lies, it would force them to question other assumptions in their lives and reflect harder on the nature of reality, which can be a very scary thought for some.Here I wish to publicly debate what the Bible really says about Jesus. Is this Almighty God in the flesh? To me, all evidence says that he is not. I am looking to see if there is someone who would take up the challenge of proving me wrong, and thus save the so-called Christian mainstream from my accusation of blasphemy, for it is indeed blasphemous to say that Jesus is God if he is not.These are the rules laid out for this debate:1. Arguments must be drawn from the Bible, not simply from one's reason. After all, this debate is ultimately about what the Bible truly says.2. The King James version cannot be used to make an argument for Jesus being God. This is because I recently finished a debate on the validity of the KJV and showed why it is perhaps the worst version to use if one is interested in what the original writers of the Bible were saying. You can view that debate here:http://debate.org...3. Join this debate only if you plan to stick around for its five rounds. My opponent bailed on my last debate and made it a bit of a dud. I want this to be as challenging and as educational as possible.4. This first round is mainly for introduction. Arguments will begin in the next round. 5. I needn't say this, but both sides are expected to treat each other with respect and act in an honorable fashion. No name-calling and profanities, please.Alright, I look forward to debating someone. Who will accept the challenge of defending this major tenant of the Christian church?