Cheryl

I am not trying to divide the Son’s nature. What I am trying to say is that the term Christ is intimately connected to His humanity in that it is not a term that can be used for the pre-incarnate Word other than in reference to the time of His incarnation, therefore to use it synonymously with “God” is incorrect.

The Word was incarnated. The Christ was born. The Word is God. The Christ is the son of David. Jesus is both God and man, but it is in His humanity that He is especially united to the Church. It is in His humanity that He is the last Adam. In His being God, He has power over all. When we say that Jesus Christ as head of the church as the husband means that the husband is like God over the wife, we distort the connection of one flesh and make it about authority and power over another. Is Jesus Christ one flesh with the Church? Is the Christ head of or head over? These are the things that need to be answered.