Without a doubt a sadly neglected topic. As you observe correctly, Christ is a title, but so is the son of God. Remember there were no lower case letter to distinguish the Son from the son. The problem is that Greek christos simply means the anointed one. And the son of God was a title given to angels as well as human kings, who were also considered anointed by God. But the term never meant a divine person. Thus, Greek readers encounter "christs" (or "messiahs" in hebrew) all over the Old Testament, such as David:
"He is a tower of deliverance to His king, and shows lovingkindness to His anointed [i.e. christ], to David and his descendants forever." [2 Sam 22:51]
The Greek Septuagint reads: "
μεγαλύνων σωτηρίας βασιλέως αὐτοῦ καὶ ποιῶν ἔλεος τῷ χριστῷ [christo] αὐτοῦ τῷ Δαυιδ καὶ τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ ἕως αἰῶνος [2 Kings 22:51, LXX]
MB: LXX does not divide Samuel and Kings, there are Kings, I, II, III and IV]
***That’s something that needs to be emphasized: the use of titles in Scripture.
Without a doubt a sadly neglected topic. As you observe correctly, Christ is a title, but so is the son of God.***
That’s not what the JWs say. :)
I have enquired further as to the beliefs of some of evangelical friends and coworkers, gently of course, and my previous posting to you about their understanding of the Trinity appears to be correct.