OLAADEGBU:


What does the title "first-born" mean?

Read what reputable Bible scholars say:

"This title refers to Christ's preeminent position and sovereignty over creation, not that He Himself is a part of creation. 

OLAADEGBU:


In the Old Testament, the first-born had certain rights and a certain status, such as preeminence, a double share of the inheritance, the right of the priesthood, and supremacy.  .

@ Genesis 49:3,Who gave the first born his rights in the old testament?
@ John 17:7, who gave Jesus his rights as first born?

Is God his Father a first born of anybody?
Deluded devotees of POLYTHEISM

OLAADEGBU:


And it can be distinctly seen from Genesis 49:3 that the meaning "priority of birth" or in "in time" [b]has been overshadowed and even sometimes lost to the implication of the term meaning "supremacy" or "preeminence."  [/b]In other words, one does not have to have been "born first" to be called "first-born" because the term's primary meaning came to be "preeminence" and "supremacy," sometimes with nothing to do about birth." .

OLAADEGBU:

When Paul calls Jesus the first-born, He is saying that Jesus has all the rights of the first-born and that He has the first-born status of supremacy and preeminence.  When Paul adds that He is the first-born of all creation, He is merely specifying what Christ's preeminence (i.e., His first-born status) applies to -- namely, all creation.
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OLAADEGBU:


Furthermore, this passage clearly teaches Christ's deity.  Since the Uncreated Creator alone created all things (Isaiah 44:24; Hebrews 3:4), and Colossians tells us that Christ is the Creator, we can then conclude that Jesus is the Uncreated Creator.
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OLAADEGBU:


Other Bible scholars have demonstrated that the word "born" does not mean to be "created" when we look at it from Jesus' title "Son of God."  Don't misconstrue this to mean that Jesus Christ must have come into existence at some point and that He is less than God, thinking that He is the Son of God, and not God, in just the same way that a human son comes into existence after their human father.  This might sound plausible at first, but upon proper observation it becomes clear that this cannot be the case. The Bible is very clear in defining the title Son of God" to mean that Jesus is of the same nature as God, just like a child is of the same nature as their parent.  And if Jesus Christ has God's nature, then He is, by definition, God, and therefore without a beginning.

If you have your father's nature,then you are by definition your own father.
When you reject the holy scriptures ,shut down your thinking cap & cleave tight to your man made delusion invented by the Council of Nicene.

Janosky:

Christ is the first born of God his Father in heaven@, Hebrews 1:6.
As Reuben is the first born of Jacob his Father, Genesis 49:3.
Oga OLAADEGBU, no add your Maggi & noodles to the holy scriptures.
Christ is the "dia", (Instrumentality, agency of creation, PROVEN by Paul the apostle & your TRINITARIAN mentors well versed in Greek & Hebrew
If you have your father's nature,then you are by definition your own father.
When you reject the holy scriptures ,shut down your thinking cap & cleave tight to your man made delusion invented by the Council of Nicene.

Janosky:

Christ is the first born of God his Father in heaven@, Hebrews 1:6.
As Reuben is the first born of Jacob his Father, Genesis 49:3.

Oga OLAADEGBU, no add your Maggi & noodles to the holy scriptures.


Christ is the "dia", (Instrumentality, agency of creation, PROVEN by Paul the apostle & your TRINITARIAN mentors well versed in Greek & Hebrew


If you have your father's nature,then you are by definition your own father.
When you reject the holy scriptures ,shut down your thinking cap & cleave tight to your man made delusion invented by the Council of Nicene.

OLAADEGBU:

"Jesus placed himself and the holy spirit on the same level as the Father"

OLAADEGBU LYING again to himself

Oga, is John 14:28 spoken by Jesus in your own Bible?

Is the teaching of 1 Corinthians 11:3 in your Bible?

3 deities devotee DECEIVING HIMSELF

Janosky:
OLAADEGBU LYING again to himself
Oga, is John 14:28 spoken by Jesus in your own Bible?
Is the teaching of 1 Corinthians 11:3 in your Bible?
3 deities devotee DECEIVING HIMSELF.

Janosky:


OLAADEGBU LYING again to himself

Oga, is John 14:28 spoken by Jesus in your own Bible?

Is the teaching of 1 Corinthians 11:3 in your Bible?

3 deities devotee DECEIVING HIMSELF.

OLAADEGBU:

God is one being in a plurality of persons.

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cornelboy:

Which of Jesus's apostles believed in "God is one being in plurality of persons"

Janosky:


God is one being in a plurality of persons.

OLAADEGBU:

The triune God of the Bible is utterly distinct from the gods of the world

Janosky:


The triune God of the Bible is utterly distinct from the gods of the world