"Before Abraham was born, I am." -- Jesus
This explains Jesus was not mortal on Earth, He was eternal. He was fully man, but, He was fully God, too. "I am" is transcendent speech, it has NO beginning and no end. "I am" means you ARE . It doesn't mean 'You were,' or, 'You was,' it means, foreverness, transcending time and space. Jesus has NO beginning and no end, He is Alpha and Omega, which He calls Himself , and, 'the beginning and the end.' This Jesus, this person whom you think was mortified and deified NEVER was , He always IS God. NO beginning, no end, ALWAYS was. Hard to fathom this thought, but, we don't need to. We are NOT God and trying to read God's mind is something that's NOT happening, EVER, just read
1 Cor. 2 last few verses and you will understand that, fully
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”[SUP]
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the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[SUP]
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14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,
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“Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”[SUP]
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But we have the mind of Christ.