So many christians say despite there being no mention of it in the new testament.
We are commanded to worship Jesus and call Him LORD! We are told not to worship anyone but GOD! Jesus must be GOD!
Jesus Created everything! GOD is the CREATOR! Jesus must be GOD!
Then why did the jesus character specifically claim to NOT be god?
Please show me where in the Bible that Jesus says He is not GOD.
"But go and tell my brothers that I am ascending to my Father and their Father; My God and their God." John 20:17
By saying that his God is our God Jesus effectively eliminated any possibility that he either claimed to be God or thought of himself as God.
I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God;
God was Jesus' Father, not by creation, as GOD is to angels, and the souls of men, and therefore is called the Father of spirits; nor by adoption, as he is to the saints; nor with respect to the incarnation of Christ, for, as man, Jesus was not sired; or with regard to Jesus' position as Mediator, for as such Jesus was a servant, and not a Son. However, GOD was Jesus' Father by nature (meaning with regard to his divine person) being begotten of him, and so His own proper Son, and GOD his own proper Father; which hold forth the natural and eternal sonship of Christ (Jesus' equality with the Father and distinction from Him) and God was the Father of Christ's disciples by adopting grace, in virtue of the covenant of grace made with Christ, and through their spiritual relation to Christ, as the natural and eternal Son of God.
God the Father is the God of Christ as man, who prepared, formed, anointed, supported, and glorified Jesus' human nature; and in yjsy nature, Jesus prayed to the Father as His God. Jesus believed, loved and obeyed the Father as such; wherefore the Jews very wrongly infers from this that Jesus is not God, because the God of Israel was His God; since this is spoken of Jesus as He is man. And the Father was the God of Christ's disciples, in and by the covenant of grace made with Christ, as their head and representative; so that their interest in God, as their covenant God and Father, was founded upon the Father being the God and Father of Christ, and their relation to, and concern with Him; and which therefore must be firm and lasting, and will hold as long as God is the God and Father of Christ: this was good news to be brought to his disciples; which, as it carried the strongest marks of affection, and expressions of nearness of relation; and implied, that Jesus was now risen from the dead; so it signified, that Jesus should ascend to God, who stood in the same relation to them, as to the Father; when Jesus should use all His interest and influence on their behalf, whilst they were on earth; and when the proper time was come for a remove, that they might be with Jesus, and with His God and Father and theirs, where they would be to all eternity.