Kristen

Cheryl, I appreciate your push-back, but I’m going to stand by my position. 🙂 “Christ” is the Son’s title as Savior, and “Lamb Who was slain” is part and parcel of what it means to be the Christ. Therefore, in my mind He has been the Christ from the foundation of the world, and there is no reason to conjecture His traveling back in time in order for this to be so. Time-travel, it seems to me, is an anachronistic application of modern science-fiction ideas to an ancient text, the writers of which could not have intended that meaning.
I also think that “all things” in Col 1:15 and 1 Cor. 8:6 probably means “all things” and not “all presently existing things” or “all principalities and powers only,” as Gengwall suggested.
Let’s just agree to disagree on this. We are in agreement on the essentials, anyway. 🙂