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compare Heb 13:8 and Mat 24:36 Does it mean that What Jesus do not know it the pass will still be unknow to him in future? Mat 24:36 Why Jesus does not know the day. Jesus is God. God shall know everything |
Bible Answer: Was Jesus Created By God? by Wayne Jackson Christian Courier: Questions Tuesday, September 4, 2001 Description Could Jesus have been created by God before the Universe existed? While the Jehovah’s Witnesses make this claim, the Bible does not support it. Is there a possibility that before the Universe was created that God, the “Ancient of days,” was all alone, and that out of his own being he brought into existence the Word, who eventually became Jesus Christ? No, that is not a concept that can be harmonized with Bible truth. Consider the following: 1. Jehovah God explicitly declares that no other God existed – either before or after him. Note the testimony of Isaiah – “. . . [B]efore me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am Jehovah; and besides me there is no God” (Isa. 43:10-11). 2. Eternality is a prime characteristic of one who possesses the nature of deity. God is “from everlasting to everlasting” (Psa. 90:2). He is the “high and lofty One who inhabits eternity” (Isa. 57:15). Now, inasmuch as it is clear that the divine Word (Christ – Jn. 1:1, 14) possesses the nature of deity, one must conclude that he is intrinsically eternal. 3. The Old Testament explicitly declared the eternal nature of the preincarnate Christ. Isaiah refers to the “Prince of Peace” as “everlasting” (9:6). The prophet Micah says that, in reality, the “goings forth” of the Bethlehem baby have been from “of old, from everlasting” (5:2). 4. The New Testament is equally clear in this matter. Three times in John 1:1 the apostle employs the imperfect tense verb en (rendered “was”) to denote the “timeless existence” of the sacred person known as the Word. The eternal existence of the preincarnate antedates “the beginning,” to which John alludes, in this passage. 5. Jesus himself affirmed his eternal existence, when he said to the Jews: “Before Abraham was born, I am” (Jn. 8:58). The present tense form, ego eimi (“I am”) stands in contrast to the aorist form “was born” (genesthai - to begin to be, to come into existence). The two expressions contrast the eternal and the temporal. The Jews certainly caught the drift of what Christ was saying, i.e., that he was claiming eternality, therefore, the status of being God. That is why they sought to stone him. The expression “I am” points one back to Exodus 3:14, where Jehovah identifies himself as the “I AM,” i.e., the self-existent One. 6. In the book of Revelation, Jesus claims that he is “the first and the last, and the Living [present participle – always living] one” (1:17-18). He is also the “Alpha and the Omega” – first and last letters in the Greek alphabet (22:13; cf. 1:8; 21:6). These phrases assert the eternal nature of the One so described, and are applied in these texts to either God, the Father, or to Christ. It is not biblical, therefore, to assert that the second Person of the Godhead had a “beginning” in any way. Unfortunately, those of the Watchtower persuasion teach the heresy that Jesus was created by God originally. |