34 Kristen,

Thanks again for your participation. You have worked hard to try to provide good answers.

You said:

God is the “head of Christ”in 1 Cor. 11:3 because God is the source/origin of Christ. Col 1:15 – “He is the image of the invisible God.”

Yes, I agree, but I do think that we could not use the term “Christ” here to refer to anything other than the flesh since the Spirit has no origin. The Word is eternal with no beginning.

Christ is the “head of man” in 1 Cor. 11:3 because Christ is the source/origin of man. He already bore the title “Christ” at the creation (because in divine anticipation He was “slain from the foundation of the world”) when all things were made by Him, to exist through Him, according to 1 Cor. 8:6.

The problem you have here is that the Bible never calls the Word (Spirit) as Christ and the grammar in 1 Cor. 8:6 is present tense not past tense. The verb comes from verse 5 which is present tense in both instances “are” not “was”.

“The man” (meaning Adam) is the “head of woman” in 1 Cor. 11:3 because Adam was the source/origin of the woman, when the woman was taken out of Adam. But verse 12 says that just as the woman originated from the first man, so also man now originates from woman (in childbirth), and God is the source/origin of all things.

Excellent!

The husbands is “head of the wife” in Eph. 5:23 because the husband was the source of provision for the wife. But the husband is not the “head of the wife” as source/origin in the same way as “man is the head of woman” in 1 Cor 11:3.

I agree. Good job!

But I think it’s a mistake to say the Son did not become the Christ till the incarnation. When we do that, we negate “slain from the foundation of the world,” and we render 1 Cor. 11:3 un-interpretable as being about origins (which the context supplied by verse 12 makes clear is the case).

The term used is the “lamb” which was slain from the foundation of the world. It doesn’t say “Christ”.

Revelation 13:8 (ISV)
All those living on earth will worship it, everyone whose name is not written in the Book of Life belonging to the lamb that was slaughtered from the foundation of the world.