I agree with a good percentage, probably around 95%, but there's something itching at me about Colossians 1 that I think didn't get addressed; it's verse 15:
So to tie this all together, how does this refer to consubstantiality between the Father and Son if the Son is the firstborn. Doesn't being a firstborn mean having a birthday and imply a starting point?
Colossians 1
15The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Also, if you want, just for fun, to see some very interesting things, run a word search on the word "father" in the New Testament and examine all of the instances where Paul, Peter, or Jude mentioned the Father. They made distinction between the Father and Son, calling God the Father and calling Jesus Lord and/or the Son of God.
So to tie this all together, how does this refer to consubstantiality between the Father and Son if the Son is the firstborn. Doesn't being a firstborn mean having a birthday and imply a starting point?
Colossians 1
15The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Also, if you want, just for fun, to see some very interesting things, run a word search on the word "father" in the New Testament and examine all of the instances where Paul, Peter, or Jude mentioned the Father. They made distinction between the Father and Son, calling God the Father and calling Jesus Lord and/or the Son of God.
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What does preeminence in the Bible mean?
Finally, Jesus is “preeminent.” That means he is first. In everything. First in importance, first in honor, first in exaltation. And the grammar of the verse indicates that Jesus is the “head” and the “beginning” and the “firstborn” in order that (hina) or for the purpose that Jesus might be the preeminent one."
https://www.google.com/search?q=preemeance&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS1006US1006&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Colossians 1:15-19
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,
John 1:1-3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
Romans 8:29
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Hebrews 1:2-3
has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
John 1:15
John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’”
John 3:31
He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
John 3:35
The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.
John 17:5
And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
Colossians 2:9-10
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
Hebrews 1:6
But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says:
' Let all the angels of God worship Him.'