Jesus as the shepherd = Jesus as God (part 2)

Cousin,

Sunday we covered another passage in the New Testament (Revelation 7) that refers to Jesus as the shepherd:

¹³ Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” ¹⁴ I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁵ “Therefore they are before the throne of God,
    and serve him day and night in his temple;
    and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.
¹⁶  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
     the sun shall not strike them,
    nor any scorching heat.
¹⁷ For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,
    and he will guide them to springs of living water,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

And there's also 1 Peter 2:

²⁴  He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. ²⁵ For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

 And Hebrews 13:

 ²⁰ Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep...

I think I said it before, but the doctrine of the Trinity, rather than being a problem, makes sense of passages like these. Without it, you're stuck with all sorts of blasphemous New Testament passages that attribute God's identifying characteristics to Jesus.