Community of Christ affirms the pre-existence of Christ in a manner consistent with mainstream Christianity — Christ as the divine Word who was with God in the beginning. The specifically LDS cosmological framework — including the pre-mortal spirit world where all humans lived before birth — is not a required belief in Community of Christ, though some members retain this teaching from their LDS heritage.

The church's theological movement toward ecumenical Christianity has shaped a less cosmologically detailed Christology while maintaining Christ's divine pre-existence as the eternal Son.