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Hi Kristen,

Here is my issue. I certainly recognize the Col 1 verses (incidentally, take a look at the NLT translation) but I don’t know how to take it. John 1 clearly says that the Word was the creator: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.”

Cheryl went to great lengths in the “Repost – Authority vs submission – a biblical view of Ephesians 5:22” comments to establish to NN that The Word and the Christ are not synonymous; that “the Christ” “is a term for the humanity of Jesus” while “the Word” is a term of deity; that “his title as His identification as Christ is ONLY tied to His human nature”. A human can not create man, only God (a deity) can. (Cheryl made the opposite argument regarding Jesus’ death – a deity can’t die, only a human can. The Word did not die, only the Christ did.) If Christ is ONLY the human nature of God the son, and the Word is the deified nature of God the son that took on flesh to become the Christ, then I don’t see how we can use the term “Christ” for the creator of man. After the resurrection, when He was no longer bound by our space/time, Christ could have certainly been there at creation, but only as an observer.