32 Kristen,

You said:

So it does make sense to say, as Paul does in Col. 1:15-16 and 1 Cor. 8:6, that all things were made by and through the Christ. He had that title before He was incarnated, though He had to be incarnated in order to fulfill the role that the title anticipated.

Col 1:15, 16 doesn’t use the term “Christ”. 1 Cor. 8:6 does use the term but the grammar is present tense so it would be proper to use the term Christ for the present.

The only reference that I can find for a name that existed in the past for the Spirit who was the Word is in Job.

Job 19:25 (NASB95)
25“As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.

Here the Hebrew term Goel is what is translated as Redeemer and it can have several meanings including kinsman Redeemer and a term used for God who redeems Israel out of slavery. Job gives his testimony that he knows his Redeemer lives and will stand on the earth in the future. This standing on the earth would be in the flesh.