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God is very emphatic about how to get to Heaven. It’s only through His Son. There are some people who believe in Jesus as Christ and say they believe Jesus is God’s Son, but they believe He was created.

So how can they possibly get this idea from Scripture? They give lots of references such as Acts 5:31 and John 14:28 by which they assume that Jesus is not God.

When one lifts up proof texts to prove a point, one is treading on very thin ice.

Jesus said, “I and My Father are One.” (John 10:30) But, John said in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and was God. If Jesus was created, then this makes John a liar and that would negate the whole Gospel.

That should be enough to give a person pause and rethink a belief that Jesus was not fully divine and also fully human. Only God could do such a thing.

Believing that Jesus was created draws into question several essential beliefs such as the virgin birth, Jesus’ sinless life, Jesus’ completely satisfactory sacrifice for our sins, and His statements about Himself being the Door to Heaven. It questions Jesus’ statement recorded in Matthew 11:27 and Luke 10:22:

All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

If Jesus was a created being, this could not be true because it would bring God into the human realm and lower Him below the state of angels.

Matthew Henry puts it this way:

He is the first-born of every creature. Not that he is himself a creature; for it is prōtotokos pasēs ktiseōs - born or begotten before all the creation, or before any creature was made, which is the scripture-way of representing eternity, and by which the eternity of God is represented to us: I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was; when there was no depth, before the mountains were settled, while as yet he had not made the earth, Proverbs 8:23-26. It signifies his dominion over all things, as the first-born in a family is heir and lord of all, so he is the heir of all things, Hebrews 1:2.

The word, with only the change of the accent, prōtotokos, signifies actively the first begetter or producer of all things. He is so far from beginning himself a creature that he is the Creator: For by him were all things created, which are in heaven and earth, visible and invisible, Colossians 1:16. He made all things out of nothing, the highest angel in heaven, as well as men upon earth. He made the world, the upper and lower world, with all the inhabitants of both. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made which was made, John 1:3.

He speaks here as if there were several orders of angels: Whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, which must signify either different degrees of excellence or different offices and employments. Angels, authorities, and powers, 1 Peter 3:22. Christ is the eternal wisdom of the Father, and the world was made in wisdom. He is the eternal Word, and the world was made by the word of God. He is the arm of the Lord, and the world was made by that arm. All things are created by him and for him.

Being created by him, they were created for him; being made by his power, they were made according to his pleasure and for his praise. He is the end, as well as the cause of all things. To him are all things, Romans 11:36.

He was before all things. He had a being before the world was made, before the beginning of time, and therefore from all eternity. Wisdom was with the Father, and possessed by him in the beginning of his ways, before his works of old, Proverbs 8:22. And in the beginning the Word was with God and was God, John 1:1. He not only had a being before he was born of the virgin, but he had a being before all time.

By him all things consist. They not only subsist in their beings, but consist in their order and dependences. He not only created them all at first, but it is by the word of his power that they are still upheld, Hebrews 1:3. The whole creation is kept together by the power of the Son of God, and made to consist in its proper frame. It is preserved from disbanding and running into confusion.

A created being cannot do all this because it requires the power of God and from this we know there is no power equal to God. Therefore Jesus is God. We cannot reverse that to say God is Jesus because that statement eliminates God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. We know the Trinity because Jesus commands us to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It's right there in Matthew 28:19. And again John bears witness in his first letter: 1John 5:7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.

While Jesus was here on earth He confined himself to his physical being. Being in the physical realm made Jesus lower than God the Father. Just as humans are lower than the angels while in our human, physical state. Once we are resurrected and receive our glorified bodies, we will be higher than angels.

Psalm 8:4-5 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

Hebrews 2:7 You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.

When we receive our glorified bodies we will be like Jesus. 1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

Therefore, as John points out in the first chapter of his gospel, that He was with God and He was God, making Jesus wholly and completely equal to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. It is this holy Trinity (proven by Jesus in Matthew 28:18-20) that we cannot fully understand because our finite minds can’t even comprehend infinity much less the spiritual realm. We will one day, but not now.

Please pray that the Spirit of Truth and Life slices open the deceptions of Satan so that those who think they are saved will be enlightened and believe the whole Truth and have eternal life.

"Point of Reference" from Fred Price

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