Cheryl Schatz

NN,
Since you refuse to answer as I suspected you might, I will provide the answers to others who do not like to play hide and seek. Let’s get this in the open.

The answer is no. The Father is not the Christ.

We can aptly say that God is not the Christ because of the human nature that is required for one to be the Christ. The Christ is a Greek term equivalent to the Hebrew term Messiah. It is a term that means anointed one and is a term for the human offspring that would be born to mankind as the human Redeemer. Therefore the Father could not be the Christ because the term “the Christ” is not a term of Deity but a term of the human Redeemer. The Father did not become flesh so that Father did not take on human nature and the Father did not become the Christ.

Jesus is not just the human offspring promised to come through Eve (the promised one would be the Messiah – Hebrew, the Christ – Greek) but He is fully and completely God Almighty who took on flesh. The term Christ is not a term that He had in eternity but a term he took on as He took on flesh. It is a term in prophecy to be fulfilled in the future (from the OT viewpoint) and in actuality when Jesus Himself took on flesh, but it is not a term that is the nature of God. Therefore the term Christ and the term God are not interchangeable but are distinct.