I get it. I prefer to examine one verse at at time.
Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I was", right?
NO!!!
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."
And then they picked up stones to stone Him, right? Why? Because they understood fully what seems to be lost on you, friend: that He was saying He was the same God Who was there with Moses, the I AM THAT I AM. That's why they sought to kill Him.
Paul also used the same phrase of himself when he said that he wished all men were as "I am" (Acts 26:29). Thus, we conclude that saying "I am" did not make Paul God. "I am" does not identify Jesus with God, but it does draw attention to him in the strongest possible terms. "I am the one... the one you must look at, and listen to, if you would know God. The phrase "I am" occurs many other times in the New Testament, and is often translated as "I am he" or "I am the one I claim to be". They were not going to stone him because he said he was God, but rather that he said he was the son. The Jews would have just thought he was insane had they believed he said he was God. But they wanted to stone him because he said he was the son.