Jesus is explicitly called God (or “our God”, or “Divine”) in scripture
• …in John 1:1 (“and the Word was God”)
• …in John 1:18 (“God the one and only”)
• …in John 20:28 (“Thomas… said to Him, ‘My Lord and my God’”)
• …in Titus 2:13 (“our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,”)
• …in 2 Peter 1:1 (“our God and Savior, Jesus Christ”)
• …in Colossians 2:9 - (“in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells”)
• …in Hebrews 1:8 (“of the Son He [God] says ‘Your throne, O God, is”)
Jesus and God are identified by the exact same quotes.
• …both “search the heart/mind”
• …both “at my right hand” (quote)
• …both “founded the Earth” (quote)
• …both “through Him are all things”
• …both “Dwell in the temple of [our] body”
• …for both, “clear the way… in the wilderness”
• …to both, we “Call on the name of the Lord”
It says in Philippians 2 -- “[Jesus], although he was existing in God’s form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God.” [New World Translation (2013), for Jehovah's Witnesses].
But so what? Couldn't it simply be referring to Jesus's not grasping at God's higher rank.1