Why is Jesus called the "firstborn of every creature" ?

Question

Colossians 1:15

Answer 1

Jesus Christ is the first creation of Jehovah God. and threw Jesus Christ everything was made.

Answer 2

Actually, in the Greek it reads:

prototokos{FIRSTBORN} pas{OF ALL} ktisis {CREATION;}

To understand this you must understand that:
Rom. 8:19 All creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal who his children are. Creation was subjected to frustration but not by its own choice. The one who subjected it to frustration did so in the hope that it would also be set free from slavery to decay in order to share the glorious freedom that the children of God will have. We know that all creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth up to the present time. However, not only creation groans. We, who have the Spirit as the first of God’s gifts, also groan inwardly. We groan as we eagerly wait for our adoption, the freeing of our bodies from sin.

Jesus is the firstborn of creation because the plan of salvation was the whole point of creation.
2Ti 1:9 Before the world began, God planned that Christ Jesus would show us God’s kindness.

Because he is the firstborn he has paved the way for us to become "children of God " through him.

Answer 3

The very next verse answers that question: "FOR by Him were all things created....." The verse you refer to says "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature" - Jesus is God's Son by relationship in the Godhead and by Him all others exist so He becomes the 'firstborn' in line of relationship to the Father.......Father > Son > everybody else. This does not mean that Jesus was 'created' for the balance of other Scriptures tells us clearly that He was God, eternal with no beginning with the Father. It is simply a position term in relationship to the Father.

Answer 4

Because Jesus was the only begotten Son of GOD.
Everything was created by the Father through Christ via the holy Spirit.

Then he became man and dwelt amongst us(immanuel)

Answer 5

Because there was a political movement at the time that those letters were written -- and the author of those letters was one of its chief forces -- to rewrite all of history to have come from this nice, but misguided and unfortunate rabble rousing rabbi, Jesus of Nazareth. I wish all Jews had such fan clubs!!!!

Answer 6

Christ existed before Creation. Christ as the 'first-born' occupies a position supreme over the universe.

As a first-born in a family, you have the privileges more than his/her brothers and sisters.

Answer 7

15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
21Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of[f] your evil behavior. 22But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— 23if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. Before all creation, He was self existent and it was for Him and through Him were all things created. firstborn could very well mean creation are His inheritence and we share in His glory and we are co-heirs with Jesus Christ. Else the term heirs would need be used in Romans 8 v. 17

17Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

It was to Jesus's prerogative to reconcile creation unto Himself and to the glory of God.
and since existed before Adam who fell, Jesus who in the parable of the tenents was represented metaphorically as the son was to claim that which was His Father's as much as it belongs to Him, So because of Adam's sin which brought death and seperation from God through one man. Life and reconciliation through Jesus Christ.

Answer 8

Because before time was, so was Jesus.

Answer 9

He's not in Black Elk Speaks, thats the Native American Bible!!@







Wahoo!!!

Answer 10

Because He is God, He always existed.