Originally posted by galveston75
The Father who's name is Jehovah is also called Almighty God, "the creator of all things".
The bible says the first thing Jehovah created who was the "first born of all creation", his son, who was later given the earthly name of Jesus.
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Where does it say the first thing created was "the first born of all creation" ?
Colossians 1:15,16 doesn't use the verb
"created" for Christ but for all things created in Him.
"Who is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation,
Because in Him all things were created, ..." (Col. 1:15,16 )
So you cannot say the word
"created" refers to Christ.
I will grant you that the phrase
"Firstborn of all creation" you might mistakenly interpret as Christ being in time the first thing created. But that cannot be the meaning because the Word through Whom all was created was as long as God was:
"... and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)
God is eternal and from everlasting to everlasting
(Psalm 90:2). The
Firstborn of all creation is not the first item created by God. God is uncreated. The Word Who was with God and was God is uncreated.
However,
"the Word became flesh" (John 1:15). Flesh along with man is definitely an item of God's creation. So God put on His creation. God was incarnated in a man. And as that preeminence item of all other things God created, Christ is
"the Firstborn of all creation".
There is another reason that Christ though incarnated as flesh, man, an item of creation is eternal. He is
"the life that was with the Father".
What could possibly be more subjective to God than God's own life?
The life that was with the Father was manifested as the Son to the apostles.
" That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we beheld and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life.
(And the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and report to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us." ) (1 John 1:1,2)
Christ said that He is the life, the divine life,
"I am the way and the truth and the life" ... (John 14:6a)
The life that was with the Father is as uncreated and eternal as the Father.
It is the life of God. And fallen sinners before being regenerated are
"alienated from the life of God" (Eph. 4:18).
How then could
"the life of God" have a creation date ?
How then could
"the life of God" and
"the life that was with the Father" be the first thing that God created?
If the living God had no life of God then He would not exist to be able to create
"the life of God".