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- Jesus is Jehovah’s most precious Son – and for good reason. He is called
“the firstborn of all creation,” for he was God’s first creation.
(Colossians 1:15)
- There is also something else that makes this Son special. He is the
“only-begotten Son.” (John 3:16)
- P. 41 “What Does The Bible Really Teach?”
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- JW’s teach that Almighty Jehovah created Mighty Jesus and they both
created everything together. But when I said that since only the creator
should be worshiped according to (Rom 1:25) we should worship Jesus
- they then said Jesus didn’t
“create” he just helped Jehovah with the stuff He created.
- Otherwise we’d have to worship Jesus.
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- who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and
serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages.
Amen.
- (Romans 1:25 YLT)
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- Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, And thy framer from the womb: `I am
Jehovah, doing all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself,
Spreading out the earth--who is with Me? (Isaiah 44:24 YLT)
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- who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,
because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and
those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether
thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities;
all things through him, and for him, have been created, and himself is
before all, and the all things in him have consisted. And himself is the
head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a first-born out of
the dead, that he might become in all things --himself--first,
(Colossians 1:15-18 YLT)
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- 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
16 because by means of him all [other] things were created in the
heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,
no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or
authorities. All [other] things have been created through him and for
him. 17 Also, he is before all [other] things and by means of him all [other]
things were made to exist, 18 and he is the head of the body, the
congregation. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he
might become the one who is first in all things; (Colossians 1:15-18 NW)
- Notice the NWT inserts the word “other” 4 times to bend the scripture?
Because if Jesus created everything then he is by definition Jehovah.
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- And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, `Men,
Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious; for passing
through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an
erection on which had been inscribed: To God--unknown; whom,
therefore--not knowing--ye do worship, this One I announce to you. `God,
who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of
earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell, neither by
the hands of men is He served--needing anything, He giving to all life,
and breath, and all things; (Acts 17:22-25 YLT)
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- In the book “What Does the Bible Really Teach?” it says that since Jesus
is the “firstborn” of all creation that means that Jehovah created him
first. But that Jesus is a part of creation and not Jehovah.
- The problem with this conclusion is that the bible doesn’t support
it.They take a few other ideas and formulate this concept.
- The bible clearly tells us what this “firstborn” concept is and it’s not
about Jesus being the first Creation of Jehovah.
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- and God did raise him out of the dead, and he was seen for many days of
those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his
witnesses unto the people. `And we to you do proclaim good news--that
the promise made unto the fathers, God hath in full completed this to us
their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it
hath been written, My Son thou art--I to-day have begotten thee.
- (Acts 13:30-33 YLT)
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- And himself is the head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a
first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things
--himself--first,
(Colossians 1:18 YLT)
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- (Matthew 1:25 KJV+) And2532
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brought forth5088 her848 firstborn4416 son,5207 and2532 wrapped him in
swaddling clothes,4683, 846 and2532 laid347 him846 in1722 a manger;5336
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- For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to
the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brethren. (Rom 8:29 KJV)
- Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
(Col 1:15 KJV)
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- And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. (Col
1:18 KJV)
- And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he
saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. (Heb 1:6 KJV)
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- Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he
that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. (Heb 11:28 KJV)
- To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written
in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men
made perfect, (Heb 12:23 KJV)
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- And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first
begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him
that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
(Rev 1:5 KJV)
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- Now we have seen that “Firstborn” of God does not refer to the first
Creature of God but the firstborn from the dead.
- Or the first to overcome the Death that Adam brought on mankind.
- The bible is it’s own dictionary and we shouldn’t make things up then
adjust the bible fit our ideas.
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