I think every being has a set of characteristics. Some have a negative, impure set of bad characteristics. Demons have especially impure characteristics, properties of their existence. Their very existence came about by bad events very much against the will of God. We could call the set of characteristics of a being its spirit. Everything which defines the being, characterising it, you could call this the spirit of that being. When a being is directly brought into existence by the sacred, elect will of God, when God choses personally for that entity to exist, and the set of characteristics of that being as a result is very good, then we can say that it has a very good, pure spirit. The Christ is such a being. God chose that there would be a Christ and chose all of the characteristics of what that Christ would be. God personally caused the spirit of the Christ, the set of characteristics defining the Christ, to exist. This means it is exceptionally good that this Christ is what he is. God determined it personally and did so before He determined anything else and made the spirit, characteristics, defining properties of this Christ the basis for everything else He created and planned and determined. So the spirit of this Christ although not preceding God Himself, does precede everything else and everyone else. So although this Christ is not God Himself, he is greater than everything else, while God Himself is greater than him. That is why the Jews hated Jesus. He made himself similar to God by identifying as this Christ and Son of God and therefore identified as greater than everything else almost like God is greater than everything else. Similar enough to God but not actually as great as God, but so similar that by truthfully confessing himself to be this Christ, this Son of God, it resulted in the Jews thinking he was blaspheming. They tried to stone him when he stated it truthfully and plainly. They knew what he was saying. They just did not believe it was true and instead were greatly incensed by it, because it seemed like blasphemy to them. Indeed if it were not true, claiming it for oneself would be blasphemy.
