I think John 17:8 was a mistake in the numbering. The verse I meant (John 17:5) was quoted as it is below but you ignored it, as you do with all the passages that show that Jesus was alive with the Father before His birth as a man.
John 17: 5
And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
You even ignore the part of John 17:8 which shows Jesus came from God and was sent from God.
John 17:8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
This has got nothing to do with being taught how to do things, it is about the Son being given authority by the Father to do things, and that authority comes when the Son sees the Father so certain things, then He knows it is time for Him to do them also.
Now when it suites you, you go back to John 5 being about the authority that the Son has been given by the Father and not about the Father teaching the Son how to do things.
And of course you forget that the Son had become a man, a servant, and so had to be given the power from the Father to raise the dead and heal people and walk on water etc. THAT is the reason that Jesus was anointed by the Holy Spirit, so that He would have the power for the work that He had been sent from heaven to do.
The fact is that Jesus was the Christ a long time before He was baptised and received the Holy Spirit. He had been appointed, anointed to be the Christ before the foundation of the world and so was the Christ, the anointed one to come from that time.
Those who believe were also chosen before the foundation of the world but we did not exist then so our choosing was different to the Son who was with the Father before the foundation of the world. (John 17:5)
Yes the Son as a man had to be given the power to do the miracles that He did. So.
I just explained that the Son was with the Father before the foundation of the earth and was chosen, appointed to be the Christ way back then. The anointing of Jesus as His baptism did not make Him the Christ, it gave the man power, just as it gave the apostles power.
You should really stop ignoring the verses which tell us of the pre existence of the living Son before He was sent to earth.
Why would I see that if you have not shown that Jesus was not God?
All through the New Testament there are scriptures that show that people believed Jesus to be God, YHWH.
You know, all those scriptures you ignore.
The claim of Jesus to be the Son of God was a claim to equality with His Father and the Jews knew that and wanted to kill Jesus for such a claim.
Thomas also knew that and knew Jesus was his God.