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Cheryl,
Though I find it only amusing that you attempt to… let us say educate me about how the dimensionality of time works (my PhD is in physics) – I think that I can get at it from another angle which will be more broadly tractable.

We both agree that “Christ” as a title refers to Jesus’ (God the Son) role and work as Redeemer of the human race.
Eph 1:3-4 ~ “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as He [the Father] chose us in Him [Christ] before the foundation of the world…”

Paul refers directly to Christ’s pre-existence “before the foundation of the world”… I am not one to argue with Paul writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

(and while I appreciate your efforts in including bits of commentaries on the meaning of “Christ” & “Messiah” – I think that we will probably both be saved time if I let you know that these are quite superfluous, and that I am well acquainted with both the Greek ideas of Christos and its borrowed use in the NT and the more pertinent Tanakh ideas of ha’Moshiach)