Jesus Christ is God in the flesh.

The Supremacy of Christ Colossians 1:15 He is the the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and in Earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities: all things were created by him and for him(Jesus Christ emphasis mine). He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head ofthe church he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have supremacy. For God was pleased to have his fullness dwell in him and through him reconcile to himself all things This scripture here from a book other than John since you do not accept all canon but only the parts you cherry pick from, plainly states that he has all of God's fullness in him. that he is the image of the invisible God. Rebuttal 1 Jesus Accepted Worship: In response to your claim that Jesus never accepted worship you are clearly mistaken, you have still not answered the question about why did Thomas say my Lord and my God. Meaning Jesus was his God. This is blasphemy if Jesus is not God. Yet Jesus didn't tell him to get up, he didin't say no,no worship God. He didn't correct him because he was right to worship Jesus as God. Now we can confuse our audience with translations and tenses in order to try and win an argument but lets debate honestly. I can point out several instances of apostles and angels refusing worship but pointing to Christ Acts 14: 12 Barnabus they called Zues and Paul they called Hermes because he was chief speaker. The preist of /zues, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates becasue he and the crowd wanted to sacrifice to them. But when the apostles Barnabus and Paul heard of this, they tore thier clothes and rushed out into the crowd shouting, Men why are you doing this? We too are only men human like you. We are bringing the you the good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things. Now why didn't Jesus have this same response to Thomas when he worshiped him? Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and him only you shall serve.'" (Matthew 4:10) The context of this event is Satan promising the worls to Jesus if he would bow down and worship Satan over God. Jesus was right in saying get behind me Satan. The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one (Mark 12:32) I am not arguing that Jesus and God are seperate, but in fact they are one so you are actually proving my point here refer to Genesis 1:26 "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." Why does he say us instead of me, or mine. He wasn't talking to the Angels because we both know that Jesus was not an angel. Isaiah 40 3-5 A voice calling: In the desert prepare the way for the Lord make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up every mountain and hill made low. the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain and the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. Cross that with John 1 : 23 John replies ion the words of isaiah the prophet, ' I am the one voice of the one calling in the desert make straight the way for the Lord." Which Lord? the only Lord. The Lord is one! Isaiah: 42:8 I am the Lord that is my name. I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols." If God cannot lie, then Jesus and God are one and the same or he has given his glory to another (Jesus) which is it? God is either a liar or he and Jesus are one. The Lord is one as you have already succintly discovered. Isaiah 43: 3 For I am the Lord your God, the holy one of Israel, your Savior." and verse 11 I even I, am the Lord and apart from me there is no other savior. Hmmm sounds pretty repetitive doesn't it ? How about this for the wise Mangini Phillipians 2 :6-8 Who, being in vary nature God did not consider equaility with God something to be grasped but made himself nothing taking the very nature of a servant being made in human likeness and being found in appearance as a man he humbled himself and became obedient to death, even death on a cross. Now even with new math in todays lesser eduacational system equal still means same as. So again Jeswus is ethier a liar or he is God. Jesus Omniscient: Did Jesus know everything? Well he knew he would die when he told the pharisees to destroy his temple and after three days he would raise it up again or what about The Woman at the Well. John 4: 16 He told her, "Go call your husband, and come back." "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband what you have just said is true." Now either Jesus either had a private investigator following this woman or he has omnisient power, a quality that God said he would not share with anyone else except perhaps himself, since the Lord is one. Like you said John 4:29 "Come see a man who told me everything I ever did." Forgiveness of Sin: you said: This is a matter of faith, and not a matter of scripturally documented fact. Since my opponent provided no references and simply stated an article of his own faith, then I can only rebut with articles of faith clearly documented in the bible. Jesus himself said "not all those who call me Lord will enter the Kingdom of Heaven". Jews believe it is God's mercy that will ultimately determine our fate, and Jesus makes this clear through his parables of the Judgement, etc You have cited no examples of this but are making false claims, I have not addressed the issue of sin because that is not what the focus of the debate is about. You are attacking the faith term to simply distract from the validity of my claims and garner support. If you want to debate the forgiveness of sin challenge me to the different debate about sin, this debate is about Jesus being God in the flesh. Immanuel: God is with us ok it means literally the same as God with us it just depends on the version of the bible you looking at. Same thing, straw man argument.