Colossians 1:15-17
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
In Jesus Christ all things consist. The entirety of the Creation emanates from him. In His providence, he actively works. He is beginning of all things as he brings them into being, and the end of all things as he takes them away again.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God and God the Son, who is the Word by which God creates.
John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 4 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 5 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 6 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Paul echoes this in Hebrews 11:
3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
Jesus is God manifest in flesh, being both God and man, and now a glorified body.
While the Bible says that Jesus is the beginning of creation, and the firstborn of every creature, He was not created as Him being God, neither was He actually created in substance as a man before anything else was created.
So how can Jesus be the beginning of creation when the man Christ Jesus was not born until being born of Mary, 4000 years later, and He is not a created God for He said there was no God formed before Him, and there will be no God formed after Him.
The Bible says that God calls things that have not happened yet, as though they already happened, for if it is a plan of God to happen in the future it is the same as if it happened in the beginning, for it will surely come to pass with no hindrance.
Which the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world, and the prophets blood shed from the foundation of the world, and the kingdom prepared for the saints from the foundation of the world, and all the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Joh 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
The Word was in the beginning with God, but the Word was not complete for the Word is God manifest in the flesh, which the man Christ Jesus was not in the beginning in substance.
But the Word of God is the plan of God to come in the future in flesh, and does not mean a God being with God, but to not debate about a trinity, but it does not support a trinity here in this case as some would use it, for it cannot be proven here for it is the plan of God to come in flesh.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the plan of God to come in the future in flesh, and that plan was with God before He laid down the foundation of the world, and that plan was God manifest in flesh.
Joh 1:3 All things were made with the plan of God to come in the future in flesh, and without that plan God would of not created anything He created, for Jesus is the reason creation is successful, eternal life, and to judge the angels, and people.
The same as Let us create man in our image does not support a trinity, or cannot be proven by it, but is a prophetic statement to the coming Son of God.
Which Adam was made in the image of God, and in the New Testament, Adam was made in the figure of Him to come who is Jesus Christ.
The image of God is the image of Christ.
Which God had the plan to come in the future in flesh before He created Adam, and created Adam in the image that He would show up in the future, and that is an innocent nature in flesh.
So the Let us create man in our image has to include the man Christ Jesus for He is part of that image.
So the Let us make man in our image is God, and the man Christ Jesus, a prophetic statement to the coming Son of God.
So although the man Christ Jesus was not conceived having substance until the womb of Mary, He is still considered the beginning of creation, firstborn of the creatures, and the Word of God, for God calls things that have not happened yet, as though they already happened.
The same as in John 17 when Jesus prays to the Father that the saints can have the same glory as Him that He had in the beginning, and be where He is at, and behold His glory.
But if Jesus is speaking as God how can the saints have the same glory as He had in the beginning being God, for they could not, but Jesus is speaking as a man praying that the saints can have the same glory as He had in the beginning, and to be where He is at, and behold His glory, and that is to have a eternal life, and a glorified body, and be where Jesus is at, and behold His glory as He sits on the throne in heaven, which is the throne of God and the Lamb, God in the glorified body of the man Christ Jesus.
Some use John 17 to say Jesus had glory as God in the beginning, but He is speaking as man, and did not receive that glory yet of a glorified body, and sitting on the throne in heaven, but is the same as if He received it in the beginning, for God calls things that have not happened yet, as though they already happened.
So Jesus is the beginning of creation, and the firstborn of every creature, for He is the first plan God had to be a man born in this world, God manifest in flesh, before He created anything.
