Was Jesus Created?

Jesus is not just a man or prophet, He is fully God and fully man who came down from Heaven to give His life as a ransom to pay the sin debt of all sinners. However, Jehovah's Witnesses (1) will appeal to the verses below in an attempt to show that Jesus is a creation. I will use the New World Translation (NWT) Jehovah's Witness Bible to show that even in their translation, Jesus is in fact not a created being but God Himself.

Case #1 (most lengthy)
Colossians 1:15, "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; " (NWT)

However, Colossians 1:19 says, "because God was pleased to have all fullness to dwell in him" (NWT) and Colossians 2:9 says, "because it is in him that all the fullness of the divine quality dwells bodily" (NWT).

So even according to the NWT Jehovah's Witness Bible, Jesus is the image of the invisible God, whom God was pleased to have all fullness (the same fullness in Colossians 2:9) dwell in him, that fullness being divine quality. If this does not show Jesus is one with the Father and Holy Spirit in terms of the Trinity, at best the NWT just made Jesus a god and Jehovah's Witnesses are in polytheism (see also John 1:1 in the NWT where the Word (Jesus) is a god).

Additionally, between Colossians 1:16-17, the NWT added the phrase "all other things" four times in the span of two verses, with the Watchtower itself stating, "all other things: A literal rendering of the Greek text would be “all things.” (Compare Kingdom Interlinear.) However, such a rendering could give the impression that Jesus was not created but was the Creator himself.” (2). Notice the Watchtower states that the literal translation rendering the Greek does not include the word "other" in the text. This is a clear perversion of God's Word.
 
Lastly, the phrase "firstborn of all creation" does not mean Jesus was the first creation; within this context, it is regarding a status of supremacy. For example, Psalm 89:20-27 God calls King David the firstborn, the most exalted of kings of the earth... but we know King David was the youngest out of 8 sons (1 Samuel 17:12-14). So, if we go by the original Greek,  Jesus is the image of the invisible God, in him all things were created, all things have been created through him and for him, he's before all things (Colossians 1:15-17). So since Jesus is before all things (including creation), this makes Him separate from creation.


Case #2
Revelation 3:14, “To the angel of the congregation in La·o·di·ceʹaz write: These are the things that the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God:" (NWT)

The word "beginning" in this verse is Strong's G746, which in Greek is defined as, "beginning, origin" (3). Since Jesus is the Creator who is separate from creation, this verse does not state that Jesus is the beginning of creation to be interpreted as in the first creation... the Amen (Jesus), the faithful and true witness, is the origin of the creation by God since all things were created through him and for him (Colossians 1:16).


Case #3
Micah 5:2, "And you, O Bethʹle·hem Ephʹra·thah, The one too little to be among the thousands of Judah, From you will come out for me the one to be ruler in Israel, Whose origin is from ancient times, from the days of long ago." (NWT)

The reason why Jehovah's Witnesses try to use this verse is because they believe this to be a prophecy about Jesus, and rightfully so, but incorrectly interpret it in the sense that since this person had an origin, they must have been created. Since JW.org affirms the use of the King James Version (KJV), Micah 5:2 reads as such in the KJV, "But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." (KJV)

The phrase "whose goings forth" is the Strong's (3) Hebrew word H4163, which means "origin", with the Strong's (3) Hebrew word for "everlasting" is H5769 which means "long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world".

So, the individual of whom this prophecy is speaking of (Jesus) has had a for ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual existence and origin. Simply put, Jesus has always existed.


Works Cited:
(1) Why Is Jesus Called the Son of God? How Is Jesus God’s Son? (n.d.). JW.ORG. https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/jesus-son-of-god/

(2) Colossians 1 — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY. (2016). Jw.org; WOL. https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/b/r1/lp-e/nwtsty/51/1#s=16&study=discover&v=51:1:15

(3) Strong, J. (2010). The New Strong’s Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Thomas Nelson.
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