Jesus Christ is NOT the SOLE Creator, as both the Father and Holy Spirit also actively created, along with the Son, as in the words of Genesis 1:26, "Then God said, “Let US make man in our image, after OUR likeness...".This no doubt is used for the Persons of the Holy Trinity, as One. Passages like Hebrews 2:10 teach that God the Father created the universe, "For it was fitting that He, for whom and by Whom all things exist". Jesus Christ, in passages like John 1:3, "All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made". And the Holy Spirit, in Job 33:4, "The Spirit of God has made (‛âśâh, same Hebrew word used in Genesis 2:4, for the creation of the universe) me". I have used the passages from Hebrews and John for a reason. In both we have the words, "by" and "through", which are from the same Greek preposition, "διά", in both places in the genitive. There are some, like the late George Ladd, who make Jesus Christ, from the verse John 1:3, to mean that He is not the actual Creator, but "through" Whom God the Father, did the Creating! If this is true for John 1:3, then it must be true also in Hebrews 2:10, when used for the Father, where it should read, "through Whom", where someone other than the Father is creating "through" Him!. This preposition in the Greek, also has the meaning, "of oneself, not by another's agency", which is what it means in both John 1:3, and Hebrews 2:10. In fact, in Galatians 1:1, Paul uses this preposition for BOTH the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Father, "Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by (διά) Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead
", giving it the meaning of "with, together".
The JW's have wilfully corrupted Revelation 3:14, so that they teach that Jesus Christ was the first to be created by God the Father. Jesus here speaks of Himself as, "the Beginning of the creation of God". In their NWT bible, they have it, "the beginning of the creation by God". Notice how they have corrupted it to read, "BY God", instead of what the Greek (του θεου) actually says, "OF God"! Their dishonesty can be seen from places like verse 1 in this chapter, where they have translated the same Greek, as "the seven spirits of God (του θεου)". WHY, here "OF God", but in verse 14, "BY God"? if not for their blasphemous teaching that Jesus is the first created by the Father? There is NO reliable, unbiased version in any langauge that would translate, Revelation 3:14, as "BY God", when the Greek is in the genitive, and has to read, "OF"! It is interesting that the Greek scholar, Dr J H Thayer, who himself was a Unitarian (anti Trinity), commenting on the Greek word for "beginning" in
Revelation 3:14, had this to say, "that by which anything
begins to be,
the origin,
active cause" (Greek-English lexicon). At least Thayer is honest with the Greek here, even though he did not actually believe this, unlike the JW's!
Likewise, in Colossians 1:15, the JW's have again corrupted the meaning of the term, "Firstborn", "
πρωτοτοκος πασης κτισεως". The "First-born of all creation", does NOT mean that Jesus Christ is the "first-created", which in the first place, would require Paul to have used the correct Greek word, "πρωτοκτιστος", which mans, "firstcreated". "
πρωτοτοκος", actually means, to have "Pre-eminance", over the whole of creation. As Paul says in verse 18, " that in all things (the universe)he might have the preeminence"! Jesus is also said to be the "
πρωτοτοκος from the dead", in verse 18. Do the JW's take this to also mean, "first-created" from among the dead? In Psalm 89:27, God says of King David, "And I will make him the
firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth". This is exactly what the term when used for Jesus Christ by Paul in Colossians 1:15, means!
