Fifty years is the approximate time it took me to understand the true meaning of gospel texts used as proof texts by Trinitarians and Biblical Unitarians. Then again fifty years is with the Father's and Jesus' and the Holy Spirit's help. Without that help a lifetime might not have been enough. No wonder the Nicean Creed took so much too and fro debate.
In particular there is this saying of Jesus Christ: "Before Abraham was born, I am"? Do you really understand this? Think of all that was known among angels inspired by God even before it was prophesied to humans, before humans knew it well. Now, people not understanding and believing this, that is the reason for dying in sins. Just saying “I understand” but not actually believing and understanding means still ending up dying in damning sins. It is the meaning Jesus conveyed in his words “I am” which is so vital to believe and understand. Among the angels, before Lord Jesus came in the flesh, even back thousands of years previously, the knowledge they received from God and the archangels about the coming Son of Man, the Christ, this was core to all their angelic activity of governing Nature. It was by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, known among them, proclaimed among them, even thousands of years before Jesus came. In this sense Jesus truly came from heaven having truly been there in heaven because heaven abounded with revealed knowledge about him and he would be. In this sense Jesus could say “I am” in the sense of his spanning millennia even before he came. He in this same sense will go on forever because God keeps him alive, raising him from the dead, because it is so important to this eternal name that he live forever. It keeps evil at bay from heaven’s perspective in how angels of heaven deal with Nature and with Earth. Now this name is made known to humans too, having been proclaimed early on by prophets before Jesus came and now by the eternal gospel since he came. It is for our salvation from our sins and from death that it is made known to us. This Jesus’ existence, existence of his name as Christ, stretches across the millennia before and after he came in the flesh. Believing in him in this sense, this profound existence, is first step to being freed from our sins, not dying in them. Then we must also hold to his teachings to make us his true disciples. Then we know the truth and the truth sets us free.
