Kristen

Answering Cheryl’s questions, continued. . .

I can see that you are not talking about any nature of God or man, but a title only. Yet you turn around and say that Christ is what He “is”. This is very confusing to me to understand you. What a person is, is the nature of that person.
Yes, I can see the confusion here. According to that definition, you are right– He is not the Christ in the same sense that He is the Word or the Son, because He was the Word and the Son from eternity, but He took the title “Christ” at the creation of the world, in anticipation of what He would do for the world. However, to say that He only became the Christ when He was incarnated, causes the exact problem Gengwall raised. Once you do that, “head” as “source/origin” in 1 Cor. 11 no longer makes sense. If He was not yet the Christ when humans were created, then Christ cannot be “the head of man.”