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Jesus Christ never claimed to be God but the Son of God, one single verse was taken completely out of context, but if you're familiar with his teaching it clearly emphasised his subordination to God.

Bible book of John chapter 14 verse 28 latter part: the father is greater than I am

The vast majority of mainstream Christian is corrupt. This is important to note cause much debate about the merits of Christianity are based on teachings & behavior that are not Christian

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He's "truly God and truly Man". The Chalcedonian Definition is a good summary of orthodox thought on the issue:

Following, then, the holy Fathers, we all unanimously teach that our Lord Jesus Christ is to us One and the same Son, the Self-same Perfect in Godhead, the Self-same Perfect in Manhood; truly God and truly Man; the Self-same of a rational soul and body; co-essential with the Father according to the Godhead, the Self-same co-essential with us according to the Manhood; like us in all things, sin apart; before the ages begotten of the Father as to the Godhead, but in the last days, the Self-same, for us and for our salvation (born) of Mary the Virgin Theotokos [God-bearer] as to the Manhood; One and the Same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten; acknowledged in Two Natures unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the difference of the Natures being in no way removed because of the Union, but rather the properties of each Nature being preserved, and (both) concurring into One Person and One Hypostasis; not as though He were parted or divided into Two Persons, but One and the Self-same Son and Only-begotten God, Word, Lord, Jesus Christ; even as from the beginning the prophets have taught concerning Him, and as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself hath taught us, and as the Symbol of the Fathers hath handed down to us.

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In case anyone's wondering, I suspect that the "one single verse [...] taken completely out of context" is John 10:30, "I and the Father are one". To the best of my knowledge, this is the only place in the Bible where Jesus seems to directly claim to actually be God rather than doing his work, representing/channeling his authority, making allusions to prophecy, etc.. The context can be read as suggesting that he was saying they are intimately linked and united in purpose rather than literally being the same entity; of course, the vast majority of Christians are Trinitarians and thus reject that interpretation.

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This doesn't contradict Trinitarian theology, by the way—Jesus and God being one falls into "three in one and one in three".

It's perhaps also worth noting that trinitarianism is so fundamental to mainstream orthodox Christianity that mainstream orthodox Christians consider it deeply heretical to reject the Trinity. This was a major result of some of the early ecumenical counsels. They put together the Nicene Creed (and by virtue of being a "creed", not a "catechism", disagreement with it is heretical by definition) that defines the three persons of the Trinity, including "Jesus Christ…eternally begotten of the Father; God from God, Light from Light; true God from true God; begotten, not made; of one being with the father"