Jesus is GOD
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Jesus had two natures. One fully man (in which case he didn’t know some things and grew in stature and knowledge), the other fully God. The God Man. The hypostatic union.
Must remember his two natures when considering passages like this.
To create a baby, the mother contributes a full set of chromosomes.The father contributes another full set. To form one cell for life to begin, it takes 2 sets. Mary contributed the human chromosomes, but God contributed the divine chromosomes (man was created in His image and likeness so this wasn't cross speciation). The complete cell therefore was both human and divine. The human is the "child born to us." The divine is the "Son given to us in Isaiah 9:6." The Son is the Word who was in the beginning, was with God and was God (Jn. 1:1). That's why He is called "Mighty God." He is called "eternal Father" because you can't have a son without a father. God is the eternally begetting Father who is distinct but not separate from the eternally begotten Son. By the time Jesus was 12, He knew who He was, but as a human who began as a baby, He was not omniscient. He was limited in time and space until after His resurrection.He learned who He was through what His mother told Him, and what He learned from Scripture through the shepherding of His Father.
Good questions.
They are separate persons that share the same essence/nature. Difference in roles, but holding the same office.
Yes, it was difficult for early Jews to understand who Jesus was, even his family. Even Jesus said “a prophet has no honor in his hometown.”
God was progressively revealing himself at the time in the flesh (Messiah), which was foretold in Hebrew prophecy, but the Jews still had a hard time reconciling what they were seeing with Jesus. More miracles (revelation) were needed.
Jesus gave up glory in Heaven, but not Divinity. Jesus does not have 'two natures' he has one nature, and that his personality which happens to be sinless.
So you are right it is impossible that first the Father and Son are the same being, and second it is impossible that Jesus the Son has two natures. He is a human just like me and you but sinless which makes him Divine. We can become divine also.