Okay, I’ll take you at your word. I’ll try to explain my viewpoint as best I can, but some translation is necessarily going to get lost between one closed reference frame (my consciousness) and another (yours).
If God were a corporeal entity, made of atoms and existing in space-time, it wouldn’t make much sense to say that Jesus is both God and God’s Son unless wherever you would plot God’s location in space-time coordinates you would also plot coincidentally the location of Jesus, in which case it would simply mean that God and Son of God were synonyms. As it happens, I do not believe that God is made of atoms, but of Spirit. There is therefore no coordinate set for God since the dimensionality of God is supernatural. In the same way that we see both the inside and outside of a square in Flatland while its residents cannot, God “sees” all of space-time, both the outsides and the insides, and all at once.
Taking that as axiomatic, I then inquire as to God’s attributes. Since He is the Source of our Life (our own Spirit), I see His chief attribute as Love. It follows, at least for me, the He would love Himself. We (the Spirit we) are part of Him, created in His image. I see it as sort of analogous to cellular replication, although not trivial. In each of us is the Light of God. I view all of us sort of as bricks in God’s Grand Sculpture of Love, with Jesus as both the builder and the Cornerstone.
I hope I haven’t lost you already, but once those premises are under my belt, I decide whether, on the whole, I find Jesus to be a Teller of Truth. Without writing a novel, I will simply say that yes, I do. Thereupon, I examine what He says in order to determine to my satisfaction whether He is indeed God. I find three principle statements that are compelling to me:
Before Abraham was, I AM.
When God appeared to Moses, Moses asked Him, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God’s answer was, “This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
This was in response to Philip’s request, “Show us the Father,” which followed Jesus’ declaration, “If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
I and the Father are One.
'Nuff said.
There are secondary clues, such as the religionists screaming at Him, “We are not stoning you for any of these, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.” But those I consider to be tangential.
Does that help your understanding of why I believe that Jesus is God?