I propose when Jesus said
I Am He he meant he was God. We find evidence for God's duality in
Ezekiel 1:15-21 regarding the wheel within a wheel. As I've stated, gospel authors decided Jesus was the son of God, therefore, their narratives reflected that conclusion. There is a substantial amount of evidence for the gospel authors concocting Jesus stories to support their son of God assertions.
Two wheels Ezekiel represents God's duality.
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the color of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
If you conduct research, you'll find evidence to question the validity of NT gospels.
Based on what we know from prior gospels and documented information showing the narrative story changing from Jesus a wise or sage man to Jesus the son of God, one may conclude Jesus was not the son of God, but the Old Testament Lord, or God! Assuming, as I have suggested, God is a duality, we have the real story about Jesus in Revelation 11 about the two witnesses. In Revelation, the two witnesses (God) came into the world to give testimony to His chosen people. Knowing Jesus was God and not the son of God, we find the four NT gospels to be in error. Most of the error occurs with reference to gospel narratives. It is difficult to reconstruct the four gospels based on the son of God error. The error makes the four gospels seriously flawed. The best reference for this problem of misinterpretation is found in Burton L. Mack's book,
The Lost Gospel Q, in this scholarly book, Mack documents the transition of Jesus sayings and narratives from Jesus a sage or wise leader to Jesus the son of God. In short, we have scholarly information which allows one to conclude the Christian story about Jesus did not derive primarily from literal translations of gospel stories, but from a figurative interpretation by NT authors over a period of several decades. In short, if Jesus was the son of God, then why didn't NT authors find it in early gospels, and why did they propose narrative stories not found in those gospels. The most convincing evidence for false narratives is the evolution of those stories when Jesus wasn't the son of God to stories when Jesus became the son of God. In his scholarly book, Mack illustrates how Jesus stories changed over a period of about forty-five years from a wise or sage man to the son of God. If Jesus was truly the son of God, why wasn't it discovered in original books or writings about Jesus?