What does it matter? How else do you understand the verse: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." You cannot argue Christ is a "mask," and thus not distinct from the Father, when the scripture clearly teaches that He is. He prays to the Father, is called "Almighty," and yet is God at the same time. Either we understand it as the Word being both with God and being God, or we come up with polytheism or the heresy of modalism, both of which are easily refuted by the scripture.
Luke 24:44 Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” 45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.
It's not about people. In the afterlife or spiritual world, you are no longer a person, but a spirit and the Lord is God.