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Who is that speaking? You will say it is the Father speaking. If the Father is one of the 3 persons of the Trinity, why would the Father say there is no other god besides him? Read it again. It is clear as day. How come you missed that?

This is exactly the same argument I've used in John 17:3, where the son says the Father is the only true God, negating the Trinity.

You're always getting into arguments over Trinity and the divinity of Christ. For obvious reasons, you kept ignoring the numerous scriptural texts I've posted from time to time, all of which affirm Jesus's deity. Instead, you chose to bring out some seemingly obscure passages every now and then to deny His divinity, passages that we've already debated.

Let me reiterate that Jesus's statement that the "Father is the only true God" does not mean the Son is not truly God, unless He'd said "only the Father is God." Second, Jesus said, "The Father is greater than I" (John 14:28). Of course, the Father as God is greater than Jesus is as a man. And the Father is greater in office, but not in nature. Hence, Jesus as a man on earth was God only in a derivative sense, but the Son of God is called God who is God in an absolute sense.

Please read John 1:1-2; 8:58; 20:28; Rom 9:5; Heb 1:8 for a better understanding of why Jesus as a man with a divine mission on earth was really God. Jesus offered three lines of miraculous evidence to confirm His claim to be God - His fulfillment of prophecy, His sinless life and miraculous deeds, and His resurrection. By the way, you haven't responded to my earlier statement that no force would have wanted to rob Christianity of that resurrection claim more than Islam did. Yet the truth stands tall.

With the exception of Islam and a few sects like the Docetists, almost everyone accepts the humanity of Jesus. It's His deity that has been questioned most, and Muslims are among the most vocal skeptics. "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world" (1 John 4:2-3).