The correct perspective is to look to God and not to anyone or any organization be it political or non political.

God is always the "Right" focus for Hope for the future because He is God after all, the one with real powers no Man can defy. In God we can dare to dream and to hope for our lives and for our families or friends.

Doesn't matter what political party rules the country.

We are not suppose to put our hopes or trust in Man, this goes with saying anything that has to do with "Man".

Man can scheme all they want...through deceit or by force but our life, our breath and our destiny is in the hands of the Almighty.

Strengthen your resilient Faith in God the Father.

God Bless Ya'll.

Your question ah? Why so weird one?
You want ”Strengthen your resilient Faith in God the Father in Christ as the Spirit.” ?

Where did Jesus says He is God?

John 8:58 (NIV) - "Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I AM!"

I am here is the reference to how God refers to Himself.

Exodus 3:14 (NIV) - God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"

Read the verse before that, "before Abraham was born. What does that tell you?

When you say before all prophets born into this world, they already know each other..I'm sorry but that is not supported in scripture.

Jeremiah 1:5 just proved this can only be said from God. Hence Christ is God.

Jesus also said, anyone who seen me (Jesus) has seen the Father. That is another statement proving Jesus is God.

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Are you a Protestant Christian.?

I usually ignore non-Protestants on this thread.

All teachings must be backed by the Word of God, as recorded by His prophets and apostles in the Bible.

Afaik, Jesus Christ was God-in-the-flesh in 1st-century AD, was also the God of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, King David, Elijah, the 12 apostles, early Christians and is also the God of today's Christians. Jesus Christ will also be the God of raptured/resurrected believers when He physically returns to earth for the 2nd time to begin His Millennial/1,000-years rule on a new earth. In Him, we see God the Father who art in heaven, ie not on earth - JOHN.14:7-9.

If you are a Protestant, I will post the relevant Bible quotes.
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So, that should answer you why Jesus is God.

As what you quoted in John 8.
42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.

All the more proving Jesus is God.

Exodus 3:14 is the affirmation of the title of God, John 8.58 affirms Jesus calling himself with the title of God because it would not make any sense to mean it's Him because He is born from virgin birth after Abraham yet preexisted with God the Father.

Which is why I've asked you to think about this. If Jesus was merely a human prophet (using your argument of the reference statement to define himself as a prophet by using i am), he cannot have existed before Abraham.

The only way for this to be true, is that Jesus is God.

of course they didn't. They don't believe that He is God.

That is why Jesus made that declaration by using the phrase I AM.

I think it does, look at your last sentence.

You agree only God can forgive sin? Did he do that in very chapter you asked me to read?

Does that not speak of his Godhood?

He forgave the woman who was about to be stoned?

Verse 11?

Firstly, i am unsure you are really a believer in Christ but i will try answer your query anyway.

the deity of Jesus is a core tenent of Christianity.

take that away, everything crumbles because His death on the cross would be insufficient for the forgiveness of sins according to God's law given to Moses.

Jesus did not come to do away with the law but to fulfill it.

scripture is clear that
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23)

and unless one without sin is offered as a subsitute sacrifice , the payment for sin (which is death) is not satisfied. Read Romans 3 for a clearer picture.

Now the question on how Jesus declared himself to be the Son of God.

Apart from John 8 : 58 where Jesus said before "Abraham, I AM" there are several other instances that come to mind.

the healing of the paralytic man lowered through the roof
Mark 2:7 onwards

Jesus implied His divinity with the ability to forgive sins.

when Caiphas questioned Jesus

Mark 14:61-64
Matt 26:62 onwards

in these passages Jesus' answer was clear.

going back to John 8.

contrary to what you say, the  chapter is actually about Jesus declaring His divinity.

consider His statements.

I am the Light of the world.

you are from below and I am from above

I tell the things that I have seen at My Father’s side

etc etc.

Pls read John chapter 1 to understand what Jesus meant by being Light of the world

and like UW stated.
there is no scriptural basis on your assertion that all prophets know each other

we can disagree on many things but the divinity of Christ is not one of them.

aral3005 Please refer to Issue#10 - What is the Holy Trinity.? at my thread https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4886095 . To me, your confusion about JOHN.8:58 stems from your lack of understanding about who God is, wrt His Fatherhood, Sonhood and Spirithood.

An Old Testament prophecy about Jesus the Prophet. .......

DEUT.18: (NKJV) = A New Prophet Like Moses

15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, 16 according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’

17 “And the Lord said to me: ‘What they have spoken is good. 18 I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. 19 And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.

20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
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JOHN.1: = 19 Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

20 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”

21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”

He said, “I am not.”

“Are you the Prophet?”

And he answered, “No.”
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JOHN.7: = Who Is He?

40 Therefore many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is the Prophet.” 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.”

But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee? 42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?” 43 So there was a division among the people because of Him. 44 Now some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
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New Testament Greek = Christos = Christ in today's English.
Old Testament Hebrew = Mashich = Messiah in today's English.

Does that mean Christ is not the same as Messiah.?

Similarly, your family at home may call you by a certain name. Your school mates or work colleagues may call you by a different name. Does this mean you were not the same person when with your family and in school or at work.?
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P S - Hence, we should study the Bible in our 1st language, eg English, and not in its original language like ancient Hebrew in the OT, Greek, Aramaic, etc in the NT. Any difficulties or controversies which are few, we should consult the opinion and commentaries of the expert translators who understood both or all 3 languages of the Bible well.
....... Why make life needlessly difficult for ourselves when Jesus Christ has stated that His yoke is easy and burden light.?
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Can you quote these verses ?

The reason why I asked you is to explain to you..... only God is qualified to forgive sinners.
Jesus did that when he said..."neither do I condemn you" that is to counter what the pharisee stake claim in saying according to the Law of Moses, she need to be stoned.

Hence John 8 has a lot of verses that support Jesus being God.

Look I think you're fighting for the sake of fighting here, if you're keen to learn, we can learn together.