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[Bucky Ball]

Jesus said he was God. So, as CS Lewis and others said, if he wasn’t God he was a lier or a madman.

The author of the gospel of John, who wasn't even alive when Jesus was alive, said that Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I am." 

That's no different that me saying JFK said, "640 kilobytes should be enough for anybody"

Barry The Ignorant,
It's "liar" not "lier". Yet another screw-up. 

The thing is the writer of John was a Gnostic, and the Chritology in John is Gnostic. He was divine, remained divine on Earth, and also remained divine after he rose. 
The beginning of the Gospel of John is practically "word for word" from the early Gnosticism of Philo of Alexandria.

"In principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat Verbum
hoc erat in principio apud Deum, omnia per ipsum facta sunt et sine ipso factum est nihil quod factum est."

That's not the same in the other gospels. Being divine in Hebrew culture does not make you a god.
A Jew would never EVER claim equivalent status with Yahweh. They got stoned to death for doing that. 

CS Lewis was a scholar of nothing. He was not a scholar of Judaism, nor ancient Hebrew history. He's nothing but a fake pretender, who actually had no education, (as you don't) in ancient Near Eastern cultures. The gospel places "in Jesus' mouth" a literary device. Jesus never claimed equality with the Father. In fact he acknowledged the preeminence of the Father, and prayed to him often, "not my will but thine be done". Go get an education ASAP.