It is not explicit; it is hinted at only. Only portions of John are explicit enough to call it Scripturally defined.
Should I start listing ALL the scripture references again...were they even acknowledged the last time?
Yes, they were; the extra-Johannine references you provided merely referred to Son of God, or to the status of Jesus as beyond that of ordinary man, but not stating explicitly that He was divine.
Markbsnr...you're making it sound like the Catholic church in Rome came up with the entire doctrine. Is that what you genuinely believe???
If the Church had not decided on John as Scripture (with the Holy Spirit guiding it of course), then there would have been no great evidence for the divinity of Jesus, and therefore no Trinitarian doctrine. Now, I have not read the other Gospels that we have the text of, in order to determine if Jesus is called divine there, so I have no opinions on their utility.
“If the Church had not decided on John as Scripture (with the Holy Spirit guiding it of course), then there would have been no great evidence for the divinity of Jesus...”
Big IF. The Gospel of John was accepted immediately. We know it was widely circulated within a few decades, since we have a fragment going back to perhaps 120 AD.
Also, if you read the Synoptics in light of the Old Testament, they ARE explicit. Jesus used - and the Jews understood him to be doing so - ‘Son of Man’ and ‘Son of God’ in relation to the prophecies of Daniel. The High Priest recognized blasphemy. And ‘worship’ used in context of calming a storm isn’t just respect for a great person - although I think you may be right about the ‘Wise Men’, and how they worshiped. That may well be a case of translators reading back into the text, and I’ll delete it from future evidence of the divinity of Christ.
When you combine the Synoptics with the Old Testament, and add the Epistles, and add John - I don’t see any reason why anyone would suggest we needed to wait until 325 AD to know Jesus is God.
I don't usually get involved in these religious debates, but I can't let this one go without comment. There are several references to the deity of Christ outside of John's writings.
A couple to examples:
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Col 2:8-9 (KJV)
5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, Phil 2:5-7 (NIV)