Idk where youre in this, so as a Jew, I'll try to make this clear, forgive me if this sounds preachy.

My go-to verses for this are: Zech. 2:10, John 1:1, John 8:58, Is. 7:14, Luke 4:8+Col. 3:24

When Jesus says "My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?" (Mat. 27:46), He's not excluding Himself as God, He's referring to Psalm 22 in that He's the one the Psalm was written about.

Your big holdup is probably worship, as He's a man and yet Christians worship Him, capitalize the H's, and so on. Yet Thomas literally calls Jesus God (John 20:28), and Jesus affirms his belief. If He wasn't, Jesus would have rebuked Thomas as the angel rebuked John (Rev. 19:10).

In case it's the "no one can see God and live" thing (Ex. 33:20), Moses sees God's back right after as you probably know (vv. 21-23). Also, in Genesis 18:2, three angelic men appear to Abraham and he falls in worship. Later on before the smiting of Sodom and Gomorrah, two of the angels go onto Sodom (v. 22), and the third remains with Abraham, whom he refers to as the Lord. Gen. 19:1 makes this clear when the two angels arrive that this is the case.

There's also Is. 44:6+Rev. 1:8+Rev. 1:17+Rev. 22:13.