It is the height of irony to claim the Bible is corrupted while simultaneously trying to use it as an authority to dictate what Jesus supposedly said. You cannot dismiss Scripture as altered and then cherry-pick lines from it to prop up your own theology.
The text completely refutes the claim that Jesus never asserted His divinity. In John 8:58, He applied the divine name to Himself with the declaration before Abraham was I am, prompting the crowd to pick up stones for blasphemy. In John 10:30, He stated I and the Father are one, and He accepted Thomas worshiping Him as Lord and God in John 20:28.
Those who deny the Son fit the exact definition of antichrist warned about in 1 John 2:22. First Corinthians 2:14 explains why this remains hidden from them, stating that spiritual truths are spiritually discerned and cannot be grasped by natural minds relying on external frameworks that reject the foundational reality of Christ.
Jesus Is God