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The Jews avoided the word "God". So Jesus would not say "I am God" - it would appear a blasphemy inside a blasphemy.

Instead, he choose expressions of even well-known formulas to mean the same thing.

As the passages cited by Finrod show, the jews got the message, so much they tried to stone Him.

Another example:

Jo 14,6 "Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me."

Imagine a leader saying "I am" those things, not "I tell about", "I know about" or "I received a message from God about"

or he is god, or crazy

Precisely.

C.S. Lewis talked about in this in his book “Mere Christianity”

“I am the way, the truth and the life.”

“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though may die, he shall live.”

And many other things like this.

If you claim all that, either you are a lunatic, or an evil man. Or you are truly who you claim you are.

For you cannot be mortal AND good, and still claim all that. Either a lunatic or an evil man would be, if mortal man you were.

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