Do you realize what you're saying?
If " firstborn of all creation" to you means " preeminent of all creation", fine....I don't agree, but even so, you are
still not changing anything! In fact, you're
verifying Jesus as the
best of Jehovah's creation!
If I, in referring to a certain person, said, "He is preeminent of all Doctors," I just told you two things: First, that he's the best (of all Doctors). Second, that
that person is himself a Doctor!
So Jesus, being 'preeminent of all creation,'
is himself a creation!
I've dealt with this before....
The Trinity: Was Athanasius Scripturally Right?
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
Psalm 89:24 My faithful love will be with him,
and through my name his horn will be exalted.
25 I will set his hand over the sea,
his right hand over the rivers.
26 He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, the Rock my Savior.’
27 And I will appoint him to be my firstborn,
the most exalted of the kings of the earth.
28 I will maintain my love to him forever,
and my covenant with him will never fail.
29 I will establish his line forever,
his throne as long as the heavens endure.
Ex 4:22
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn
Deut 32:7 Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you. 8
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. 9 But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.…
In Deut 32:7-9 and Ex 4:22 we see that God appointed Israel to be His firstborn even though Israel was not the first in time of the nations.
In Ps 89:24-29 we see that God appointed the man He had found to be His firstborn even though this man was not the first man in time. You don't
appoint someone to be your firstborn (as in "first one born") (Ps 89) they either are that or are not that. God can and does appoint Israel and the man of Ps 89 to be His firstborn (heir, preeminent one)
Yet this man was and is a man and so as a man is part of the creation of God. I can say that and I'm a trinitarian. The uncreated Word who created
ALL things stepped into creation as a man.
Col 1:16 and on to maybe the end of verse 20 tells us why God made this man His firstborn. It is not because He was the first one created, it is because He created
ALL things and is before
ALL things and holds
ALL things together and
ALL things were created through and for Him etc and it even says that all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell in Him and to reconcile all things to Himself.
It is the other meaning of "firstborn", "heir, preeminent one",,,,,,,,,,,,the meaning that you have been taught does not exist in the OT, but which plainly does, which is meant at Col 1:15 and is the reason some translations use "over creation" instead of "of creation".
That the prehuman Jesus created ALL things means that the prehuman Jesus was not created.
If you want to point to the partitive genitive in Col 1:15 as proof that Jesus is part of creation, so be it, but you should also know that it is not proof that the prehuman Jesus was created,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,unless of course you want to change the scriptures and add "other" to the text to make the JW doctrine easier to see there or as you say, to clarify the meaning of the text,,,,,,,,,,,,,,JW style.
But it is obvious that He did not create Himself or His Father or the Holy Spirit BUT as John 1:3 tells us He did create ALL things that have been created.