Are your beliefs about God determined by the geography and culture they’re born into—not by a careful examination of truth? This would cast a long shadow over the certainty with which you might declare your exclusivity. The frameworks people are handed from birth are frequently designed to reinforce belonging to a system rather than connection to the divine. As a result, the concept of “divinity” becomes distorted, abstracted into metaphysical categories, and wrapped in ritual and authority, rather than rooted in the direct, simple, and relational way it is presented in the gospel.
Jesus was made like his brethren in every way, except without sin. His brethren have one human nature. Maybe you have a different concept of divinity to his, which he preached as recorded in John chapter 10. John would have adhered to this view of divinity taught by Christ. This is what John will have meant in John chapter 1. The Word had this kind of divinity, and was then made flesh: flesh like yours and mine. He shares our humanity. He is only different in that he did not sin, and he is alive from the dead, raised by God.
