Saying Jesus is God is a prevalent religious tendency these days but God is the Father and is not human. Jesus existed before coming in the flesh. He was even a kind of human, hence called the Son of Man. Becoming flesh did not mean He had not already been a kind of human; angelic but human as distinct from other angels. His preexistence was called Son of Man. That is what He meant in John 8 and 9. So insisting Jesus is God is too inaccurate and prone to misinterpretation.
