Jesus Christ is the firstborn of all creation

Paul says that Jesus is: "The firstborn of all creation." The apostle Paul with that image is trying to affirm once again and how to drive the nail with this idea that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, he is God himself.

What the apostle Paul is saying when he says that he is the firstborn, is not saying that he is the first born of creation because in that case there would be a date as Jehovah's Witnesses wrongly say that happens with Jesus Christ. The word that is translated into Spanish: first-born is the word: prototocos where the word in Spanish comes from, prototype, for example, it means, it is like a fundamental model, it is like what is used as a base to later make a series of copies of something. It is done first before making an airplane that is sold in series, first a prototype is made, a prototocos and then from that first-born airplane, let's say, then all the other airplanes are created.

What Paul is trying to establish here is not so much the fact that Jesus Christ was born at a particular time as that He is the first creature that God created as Jehovah's Witnesses wrongly claim but that what he is saying is that Jesus Christ is as the main model. From Jesus all creation takes its directives, acquires its characteristics and qualities, which incidentally is the same thing that is said in Genesis about the person of the Father. The Bible tells us that: "mankind was made in the image and likeness of God."

Meaning that all men, women reflect in a sense the person, the characteristics, the qualities of God. We do not know to what extent or in what specific ways, but we do know that man, the exalted creature of God, reflects the characteristics of God himself and that in that sense God is the first-born of all humanity because He is the model, the prototype. ours and in that sense is that the apostle Paul says that Jesus Christ is the model of all creation, that is to say that creation takes on the characteristics of the person of Jesus.

We are created in a sense in His image and likeness and reflect His qualities that are eminently human but also divine. So in that sense we believe that we are copies and we are reflections of Jesus Christ. Not only that, but by saying that he is the firstborn of all creation, he is saying that in reality all creation in one way or another reflects the qualities of Jesus Christ.

And that's also true because creation reflects qualities of God's character. It reflects, for example, the goodness of God because it nourishes and sustains life. It reflects God's order because creation has laws and has certain parameters and certain patterns. Creation has coherence because it is once again unified by those laws and those governments. If creation has a government and has justice, it has a system like God too, His personality is ordered, His Kingdom is ordered.

So in that sense creation also reflects the image of God and Jesus Christ being God Himself also reflects the image of Jesus Christ. That word firstborn if we do not understand it correctly can lead to serious problems. It is not that Jesus is the first of many but that Jesus is the only one of many and is the one from whom all creation derives, its qualities.

In the Bible the word firstborn is not only used in the sense of the one who is born first but it is also used in the sense of the one who has the highest authority and importance in a family, thus it is used in the Old Testament to refer to that family member who has the birthright or who has the highest authority in the family. So it is not only that he has to be born first but that he has the highest authority, the highest power, the highest importance.

And that is what I believe, not only I but great scholars of Scripture that Jesus Christ is the firstborn of all creation. What a glorious God we have in Christ Jesus and how we then have to love him, adore him, venerate him and give him the utmost importance in our lives. God bless you brothers and see you in our next meditation.