4. Jesus Christ is the creator
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✍The apostle Saint John the Evangelist has made two things very clear to us: - 1. Jesus Christ is God; 2. Jesus Christ is the Creator. Saying that: - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... All things came into being through Him, and without Him nothing came into being." (John 1:1-3)
✍When St. John explains that Jesus is the Creator, he says, "All things were made through him." This means that the heavens were made by him, the earth was made by him, the creatures in the heavens and the earth, as well as those in the sea and the deep, the visible and the invisible were made or created by him.
✍As St. John said 'All things were made by him' St. Paul has also explained it this way to indicate that everything was created by him (the Son, Word): "Since ancient times, God has spoken to our fathers in many ways through the prophets, and he has spoken to us at the end of this age in his Son, who made all things heir and created the ages." (Hebrews 1:1) He used it to mean "the one who created all creation" because there is no being that cannot be measured by time.
✍Saint Paul also said, "We have one God the Father, from whom all things are to us, and we are to him, and we have one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and we are through him." (1st Cor. 8:6) Here, the saying that all things were made by him and we are made by him is said to both the Father and the Son, which shows that the Father and the Son are one in creating the creation.
✍The Arians say that the Father first created the Son and then the Son created other creatures; and our Bible contradicts their idea by saying, "God first created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1) In the statement that God created the heavens and the earth, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are also mentioned. Because 'God' is the Unity name of their Trinity. Therefore, to believe that the Son alone created the worlds is a mistake in itself. Rather, it is necessary to believe that the worlds were created in the Word of the Son. In other word, worlds were not created without Word of the Son without the breath of the Holy Spirit, without the heart of the Father. In fact, believing that there is 'God' in the name 'Jesus', and the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the name God, there will be no problem if we say that the worlds were created by Jesus.
✍Arians call the Son a creature due to wrongly understanding the parable of sage of Solomon "God made me the beginning of the way ... When he laid the foundation of the earth, I was his chief worker, and my joy was in the earth, and in the children of men . (Proverbs 8:22-23). The first thing these heretics do not understand is the difference between birth and creation. Besides, they also do not understand that "I was a worker" does not mean that he has an "employer" but that it simply means he has a job. One is to mean "I was a maker/creator" and one is also to say that what was intended by the heart of the Father was spoken and fulfilled by the Word of the Son. So, what this word of the Bible tells us is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, not a creature. If it is the Son of charactor, then as we cannot create what we beget just as we cannot say that we beget anything that we have made with our hands, so the Father cannot be called the creator of the Son, but begets the Son. And if we say that he is the father of charactor, we do not say that he created, but that he begot. In other words, to call the Son a creature is to call the Father a creature. and this leads us to be lost in a big mistake because Jesus has clearly told us, "I and the Father are one." (John 10:30)
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