Cited in the 'firstborn of all creation' debate to argue that firstborn means preeminent/supreme over creation, not that Christ is the first creature.
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Colossians 1:15-17
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15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
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A non-trinitarian cited 'firstborn of all creation' to say Christ was created; the host argued from the context that it means supremacy over creation because all things were made by him.
Read again later to show that all things in heaven and earth were created through the Son, in response to a Muslim denying that Jesus created the heavens and earth.
This passage was paraphrased to argue that Jesus is called 'firstborn of all creation' in the sense of supremacy, not as the first created being; it was used to defend Christ's preeminence and creative role.
Used to argue that all things were created through and for the Son and that all things hold together in him, supporting the Son's full divine status.
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