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Adventistische Schriften über: "Was Jesus created by God?"
Answer
No, according to the Scriptures Jesus is not a created being but the Creator of all things. The notion that Christ is a creature of God contradicts the biblical statements that He existed before all creation and that everything was called into being through Him. Holy Scripture describes Him as the only‑begotten Son of God, who is begotten and not created, and who stands above the entire creation.
Christ is begotten and does not belong to the created beings
»We should not imagine that Christ is a creature simply because Paul calls Him “the firstborn of every creature”; for the following verses show that He is the Creator and not a creature. “For in Him all things were created, those in heaven and those on earth, visible and invisible … all are through Him and for Him created. And He is before all, and everything exists in Him.” If He has created everything that has ever been created and existed before all created things, it is evident that He Himself does not belong to the created things. He stands above all creation and is not part of it. Scripture explains that Christ is “the only‑begotten Son of God.” He is begotten, not created.«
The heresy that Christ is a created being
»It is the notion that Christ is a created being who has been elevated to His present exalted position by the favor of God. No one who holds this view can have an accurate conception of the exalted position that Christ truly occupies. ... This is mistakenly interpreted as if Christ were the first being created by God—that God's work of creation began with Him. Yet this view contradicts Scripture, which explains that Christ Himself created all things. To say that God began His work of creation by creating Christ means to remove Christ entirely from the work of creation.«
The uncreated Word of God
»God alone is without beginning. In the earliest epoch in which a beginning could exist—a period that, for finite minds, is essentially eternity—the Word appeared. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This uncreated Word was the being who, in the fullness of time, became flesh and dwelt among us. His beginning was not like that of any other being in the universe. He is described in mysterious expressions: “His [God’s] only‑begotten Son,” “the Begotten from the Father,” and “I am gone forth from God and have come.” Thus it is shown that the Son of God appeared by a divine impulse or process, not by creation.«
Christ as the Initiator rather than the Beginning of Creation
»In Revelation 3:14 He calls Himself with a title that translators have rendered as “the beginning of God’s creation,” and some assume that the work of creation did not begin through Him but with Him, thereby lowering Him to the level of a created being; whereas the meaning of the word rather suggests the idea of “headship” and presents Him not as the “beginning” but as the Origin or Initiator of God’s creation … No work of creation was accomplished before Christ appeared as the acting force on the plan; for all this work was effected through Him.«
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