Did Jesus consider himself the Son of God?

[u/israelregardie]

According to Marcus J Borg in the «earliest layers of the gospel» Jesus did not seem to consider himself specifically as the son of God («Meeting Jesus again for the first time»).

Is this an established view? Or a niche theory? And are we to believe later utterances of him saying «my father in heaven» were either added in retrospect or meant as «our shared father»?

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[u/roboito1989]

I would recommend you read/listen to the book How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee. Bart is brilliant and the book was magnificent, IMO. You could also check out his blog or YouTube channel. He talks about this a lot.

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[u/israelregardie → u/[deleted]]

But John is considers ahistorical, right? 

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