Seeing it both ways does not mean I believe it both ways. I mean I can understand why people believe as they do even it may differ from what I believe:
"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am." John 8:58
What I see is not just the one verse but my own view from reading and studying all of my Bible and from talking with God. When I came to God in the UPC in 1976, they taught me to read my Bible. A central doctrine for them was that there was only one God and Jesus was his name. No Trinity! I went along with that as I knew no different. They of course showed me the Bible verses supporting their belief. [My Trinitarian background was Catholic but there was no Bible for me in that.]
I guess during the years beginning in 1987, when for the last time I left the UPC, I went up and down and all over the place with my reading and with what I heard across pulpits. In the late 1990's I joined an Internet Christian forum and began hearing a greater variety of ideas on the subject than ever before:
1) Jesus alone is God; or
2) Jesus is one part of a three in one God; or
3) Jesus is only a special human being; or
4) Jesus is fully man and fully God; or
5) Jesus is a lesser God.
Often each individual or group believing one of those would have a whole set of scriptures ready to support their position. I listened and I looked at their arguments and I studied the scriptures independently of their words and I talked to God.
I see a type or shadow of Jesus in Joseph under Pharaoh in Egypt as per this verse:
"Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou." Gen 41:40
And then...
"Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I." John 14:14
"Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all." I Cor 15:24-28
"Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church," Eph 1:20-22
"But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." Heb 2:9-10
From the Genesis verse do you see what I see? If not, that is between you and God, is it not?