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And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” (Matt. Verses given in support: “Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

“Wicked will be eternally destroyed” (that is, no hell, just annihilation).

He was in the beginning with God all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.” This passage also shows that the Son is not a creature because all created things were made through him. The fact that there was no time when the Son did not exist is indicated in John 1:1–3: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. It merely says Christ was the source of creation. Regarding the second verse from Revelation, it’s hard to see how it helps the Witnesses at all. 8:29).įurther, the Greek of this verse can also be translated as “the first-born over all creation,” as in the New International Version of the Bible. But the title “first-born” refers to Christ’s place as the chief and unique Son of God (cf. In the first of the two verses, Witnesses think that “first-born” implies succession and inferiority. “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation’” (Rev.

“Christ was the first of God’s creations.” Verses cited by Witnesses in support of this claim include: “He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation” (Col.

Other verses cited by the Witnesses, such as Matthew 3:17, show merely that Christ is God’s Son, not that he is inferior (in fact, John 5:18 shows that being God’s Son is being equal to God). But to focus on this aspect of Christ to the exclusion of his divine nature is a gross misunderstanding of who and what the Bible says Jesus Christ is. Christ’s human nature, though, is created and is therefore inferior to the Father. So far as he is God, Jesus is equal to the Father.

Some verses, such as these last four, refer exclusively to his Godhead.

How do we make sense of all this? By keeping in mind that Jesus is both God and man. These seem to contradict the other verses. Or, “, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped” (Phil. Or, “The Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God” (John 5:18).

For example, there is John 10:30: “I and the Father are one.” Or, “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9). But the New Testament also has verses which clearly show Christ and the Father to be equals. It does seem that Christ is inferior to God the Father in some sense. 15:28).Īt first glance these citations seem imposing. “When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be everything to every one” (1 Cor. “The head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God” (1 Cor. “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God” (John 20:17). “If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father for the Father is greater than I” (John 14:28). “I proceeded and came forth from God” (John 8:42). “Christ is God’s Son and is inferior to him.” Given in support of this position are these verses: “And lo, a voice from heaven, saying, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased’” (Matt.