Christ head as Creator; Spirit gifts prove his deity

to Adam, he adds, “of God,” setting the God who made him as the human’s beginning. In the same way we say Christ is every man’s head: for man was made through him and brought into being — the Son not creating him as a mere under-worker, but rather in a God-working way, as Creator by nature.

The man is head of the woman because she was taken from his flesh and has him as her beginning. Likewise God is head of Christ because the Word is from him by nature — for the Word has been begotten from God the Father. Then how is Christ not God, whose head by nature is the Father? And when I say “Christ,” I mean the Word from God who has appeared in human form.

“Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, ‘Jesus be cursed,’ and no one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except in the Holy Spirit. There are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; varieties of ministries, but the same Lord; and varieties of workings, but the same God who works all things in all.”

If saying that Christ is not God by nature and in truth is nothing other than saying “Jesus be cursed,” then those who cast him out from being God according to the truth are not doing this in the Holy Spirit. And if Paul says the varieties of gifts are at one time worked by the Spirit, at another by the same Lord, at another by the same God, he knows Christ to be God — the one who works as God through the Spirit, and who as Lord by nature distributes the gifts from above with authority as he wills. Remember also that Paul said Christ worked in him by the power of the Holy Spirit.