Title: The firstborn of all creation
Cultists use this verse to prove that the Lord Jesus was a created being, having been created by the Father first and then Jesus, himself, creating all others in the universe.
If God the Father had indeed created the Lord Jesus, He had to bring forth time and space first in order to accommodate any created being; but v. 16 states that the Lord Jesus created all things, visible and invisible, to include time and space. Now if the Lord Jesus had been created without the benefit of time and space (which is not possible), he is essentially eternal, because anything before time and space has no beginning or ending, and anything eternal is Deity.
The argument that the Lord Jesus was a created being is also faulty in the sense that creative power starts with nothing. If the Lord Jesus was a created being, he was limited in what he could do, and surely he could not have made any thing out of nothing, for that is the prerogative of God alone. If cultists would continue to argue that the Father had given the Lord Jesus the power to create out of nothing, that would be tantamount to making the Lord Jesus God, for creative power could not be transferred to a created being without making him Deity, if it could be transferred at all.
And we must also consider another aspect of creation which is the power to hold all things together (v. 17). If the Lord Jesus was a created being, someone else holds the power to hold him together. No one who is being held together by a higher power has the ability to hold other things together, for the simple reason that he has no control even of or over himself; and the power of keeping other things together will eventually fall on God the Father, and that would make (v 17) spurious.
