Was Jesus Considered to Be God?

Answer 1

Yes.

John 20:27-29:

Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe."

Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

Jesus said to him, "Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed."

The Nicene Creed (from the year 325) talks about Jesus Christ being God:

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father. Through Him all things were made.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains in depth:
http://www.nccbuscc.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt2.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

No, not originally.

Jesus was of two great bloodlines- the ancient kings of Judah, via his father and the Essene Egyptian "sons/daughters of Zadok", the ancient High Priests, who were against the Sadducees and claimed their heritage through Pharaoh Akhenaten (The real Moses).
See:

At the Qumran site, a central Essene community and birth place of John the Baptist, they found the Copper Scroll, which had listed in ancient greek "Akhenaten is also Zadok" along the text.
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/old_testament/sources/copper_scroll/copper_scroll_0010.htm

When Jesus returned from his journey's he decided to meet with the priests of Amen at Thebes and reveal his heritage. They anointed him the true Pharoah- and therefore he was given the title "Son of God".
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/old_testament/sources/son_of_god/son_of_god_0010.htm
and
http://one-faith-of-god.org/old_testament/apocrypha/son_of_god_2/son_of_god_2_0010.htm

When Paul of Tarsus created the counter movement to squash the true message of Jesus and the Nazarenes, he used the title of "Sonof God" to tell ignorant people he was literally a God.

The reason for this was simple- Jesus used the title to publicly highlight the lies of the Old Testament and the ancient Jewish hierarchy. Paul, working for the Jewish High Priests had to put a different spin on it.

Only in 320 CE did this become official church doctrine and we have been stuck with the myth ever since.

How awful Jesus must feel that his name and legacy is so twisted agaist what he tried to reveal by the very people who claim to worship him...

Answer 3

IF PEOPLE were to read the Bible from cover to cover without any preconceived idea of a Trinity, would they arrive at such a concept on their own? Not at all.

What comes through very clearly to an impartial reader is that God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, separate and distinct from anyone else, and that Jesus, even in his prehuman existence, is also separate and distinct, a created being, subordinate to God.