dudley thoth
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Hi there Hawkfum.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Archangel Michael was God's first creation. Perhaps you are using another source?
However, some Christians would hold that Michael is Jesus. Jehovah's Witnesses, in particular, maintain that Jesus is Michael and use it as evidence to help maintain their doctrine that Jesus is a created being and therefore not God. The Bible testifies in various places that Jesus is God.
The doctrine of the trinity does not divide the Godhead into three. Jesus is not one third of God, Rather, he is fully God.
For in him (Jesus) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9. Literal Translation)
Furthermore, God, in the person of Jesus, became fully human. It was as a human that he gave his life, and it was as a human that he was resurrected. It is by the power of the resurrection that Jesus becomes the firstborn (or pre-eminent) son of God.
He (Jesus) is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he be pre-eminent in all things; because all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him, and through him making peace by the blood of his cross, to reconcile all things to himself. (Colossians 1: 18-20. Literal Translation)
The non-cannonical 'Epistle of Barnabas' is also worth quoting at this point:
Again I will show you how the Lord speaks to us. He made a second creation in the last days. And the Lord says: "Behold I make the last things as the first." (6:13)
The lastborn who becomes the firstborn (or pre-eminent son) is a theme found throughout the book of Genesis: see Cain and Abel (4:1-16); Ishmael and Isaac (16:12; 21:10); Esau and Jacob (25:30, 27); Zerah and Peraz (38:27-30), Manasseh and Ephraim (48:13-20). See also Saul and David (1 Samuel 10:21-24; 11:12-15; 15:26; 16:13; 2 Samuel 2:4; 5:3; Psalm 89: 20,27).
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. (Romans 8: 29. N.I.V)
God Bless.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Archangel Michael was God's first creation. Perhaps you are using another source?
However, some Christians would hold that Michael is Jesus. Jehovah's Witnesses, in particular, maintain that Jesus is Michael and use it as evidence to help maintain their doctrine that Jesus is a created being and therefore not God. The Bible testifies in various places that Jesus is God.
The doctrine of the trinity does not divide the Godhead into three. Jesus is not one third of God, Rather, he is fully God.
For in him (Jesus) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9. Literal Translation)
Furthermore, God, in the person of Jesus, became fully human. It was as a human that he gave his life, and it was as a human that he was resurrected. It is by the power of the resurrection that Jesus becomes the firstborn (or pre-eminent) son of God.
He (Jesus) is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he be pre-eminent in all things; because all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him, and through him making peace by the blood of his cross, to reconcile all things to himself. (Colossians 1: 18-20. Literal Translation)
The non-cannonical 'Epistle of Barnabas' is also worth quoting at this point:
Again I will show you how the Lord speaks to us. He made a second creation in the last days. And the Lord says: "Behold I make the last things as the first." (6:13)
The lastborn who becomes the firstborn (or pre-eminent son) is a theme found throughout the book of Genesis: see Cain and Abel (4:1-16); Ishmael and Isaac (16:12; 21:10); Esau and Jacob (25:30, 27); Zerah and Peraz (38:27-30), Manasseh and Ephraim (48:13-20). See also Saul and David (1 Samuel 10:21-24; 11:12-15; 15:26; 16:13; 2 Samuel 2:4; 5:3; Psalm 89: 20,27).
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. (Romans 8: 29. N.I.V)
God Bless.