Does Colossians 1:15 teach that Jesus was created?
In this passage, Jesus is called the “first-born” of all creation. This does not mean that Jesus is a part of creation. To this statement, Jehovah’s witnesses may level the charge that we are not taking the Bible to mean what it says. That is not the case; in fact the opposite is true — the Jehovah’s witnesses are not taking the Bible to mean what it says. We are not saying that “first-born” does not mean first born; we are saying that “first-born” does not mean “first-created,” which is what the Jehovah’s Witnesses teach. They are reading into the text something that is clearly not there, namely that Jesus is not the “first-born,” but “first-created.” Evidence that Paul is not teaching that Jesus was created 1. Birth and creation are not equivalent terms. For example, the Bible teaches that Jesus was born of a virgin, but even Jehovah’s Witnesses would not hold that this means that He was created the day He was born of Mary. Since birth and creation happen at different times, they ca
