Subject: Does this explain Trinity? |
Bible Note: Greetings, In your response, you started off with some good questions. You said that we all agree that Jesus is the Word (Jn. 1:14). You then stated that according to Genesis God created the world. You then asked, Jesus was with God in the beginning of what? If you stay with the context of John 1, it tells us what beginning John was talking about. John 1:3 says, "Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made." (NIV) Therefore, logically, Jesus is God. Since, God created everything according to Genesis and Jesus created everything according to John 1:3. In fact, this is exactly the point of John 1:1 - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." So John 1 makes 3 points about Jesus. 1. He is eternal (from the beginning). 2. He is God, and 3. He created everything. In fact, the other passage you quoted from (Col. 1:15-20) makes almost exactly the same claims for Christ. Col. 1:16 says that He created all things. Col. 1:17 says that He holds all things together. Col. 1:15 and 1:19 says that He is the image of the invisible God, with the fulness of God dwelling within Him (not an imperfect copy). Thus, according to Col. 1:15 and 1:18, He is the firstborn or supreme over everything. Thus, John 1 and Col. 1 both say that Jesus is fully God in every sense of the word. Thanks, Tim Moran |