Whoops. It's off to the trashcan for this piece.
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" 2 Cor 3:17
"And the Word was God." John 1:1
Ps 45:6,7 (messianic passage) "Your throne, O God, will last forever...
therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions."
(This kind of addressing the coming messiah as God and then referring to God as the messiah's God is something to express their being one and the same, and yet separate. Much as the word for God "elohim" is plural yet to call God "gods" is blasphemous. That is why they said Christ committed blasphemy, because all through the Old Testament it is taught that the Son of Man, the Messiah, would be himself God.)
John 8:57-59 "You are not yet fifty years old," the Jews said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!" "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!" At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.