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I will pose a hypothesis. Please humor me.

You quoted John 10, the good shepherd. If you were there, as a peasant of that time, and you heard a prophet of God saying he is a good shepherd, would you immediately think "Oh.. he is saying he is God"? 

I want your honest answer.

If I were an atheistic peasant or a peasant Moslem hearing a prophet of God claiming to be the good shepherd who's laying down his life for his sheep, I'd think he's either a liar or a lunatic. A prophet by definition delivers God's messages and can never take the place of the Almighty. This definition sits well with Muslims.

However, if I were a sheep, aka disciple, I'd believe in His deity very strongly, and concur with the disciples of yore who attributed to Jesus the Titles of Deity. They called Him "the first and the last" (Rev 1:17; 2:8; 22:13), "the true Light" (John 1:9), their "rock" or "stone" (1 Cor 10:4; 1 Pet 2:6-8), the "Bridegroom" (Eph 5:28-33), "the Chief Shepherd" (1 Pet: 5:4), and "the great Shepherd" (Heb 13:20) He is seen as the Forgiver of sins (Acts 5:31; Col 3:13; Jer 31:34) and Savior of the world" (John 4:42; Isa 43:3). "Christ Jesus... is to judge the living and the dead" (2 Tim 4:1). All of these titles are given to Yahweh in the OT and to Jesus in the New. Your hypothetical strawman is an inept and futile attempt to pooh-pooh the divinity of Christ.