33 Kristen,

You said:

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.”

This is why I stated that the resurrected Christ can go back in time and I believe that it is the resurrected man that walked with Abraham. If this can happen, and if indeed the resurrected Christ who is a life-giving Spirit could have breathed into Adam and given him life. Is this impossible? I don’t think so. If it is impossible, maybe you could tell me why it is impossible. I think that Paul used his words deliberately and he used Christ here for a reason. I do admit that it is a hard saying, but then Paul was used to giving out hard sayings.

Thanks for working with me on this one, it is good to banter back and forth and push each other for answers. I think it really stretches us and it is what I love about the “tool” that we have on this blog. I certainly don’t mind being challenged at all, and you ask great questions!