Maybe not, but it seems to me that being a Christian means believing Jesus was a god. As with every belief system, there will be some renegades. Do you think most of the world's Christians think Jesus is a god or not?
I was raised a Catholic and I was taught that Jesus was god. I never heard any arguments to the contrary. I spent many hours in catechism classes studying the divinity of Jesus and the trinity. The people I knew in the church would be shocked if anyone suggested that Jesus was not god. It is the "heart and soul" of Catholic and probably most Protestant theology as far as I can determine.
Good point, I thought someone might raise that. Being a Christian practically equals believing in the resurrection. Some hairs could be split there, but let's not. But this discussion is about a scholarly question of the synoptic gospels presenting Jesus as a pre-existent figure. You quoted heavily from John. John starts out putting Jesus at the right of God at creation. The other 3 don't do that. That's when this debate started, about 1,900 years ago. So, those Catholics who raised you are winning. But they win not by making an argument based on correct interpretations of ancient writings. In fact they do the opposite. They change words, they misinterpret, and if they find out one of the Church Fathers misinterpreted something, they don't correct themselves.
For the last few hundred years, they have been losing their power over that scholarship, and IT HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY POPULAR to point out they are wrong.
How can anyone be right or wrong about whether Jesus is a god? It comes down to belief. The way I understand Christianity, nearly every Christian believes Jesus is god, no matter how they came to that conclusion, whether through a true understanding of scripture or through a misinterpretation of it. In the end, what does it matter? As far as I'm concerned no god has been shown to exist. All claims to godliness are without evidence. But Christians believe it. This argument is on the same level as "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"