I was researching the deity of Christ today and quickly found Biblical proof that Jesus is God from Colossians 1:16. I looked up that verse in the Greek on Biblehub.com.
I wanted to see what the Greek said about the preeminence of Jesus because He created all things we see. Here is the link for Colossians 1:16 in the Greek: https://biblehub.com/text/colossians/1-16.htm
When you go to that link, and click on the Strong’s number for the phrase “were created” it takes you to another page (https://biblehub.com/greek/2936.htm) with the meaning of that in the Greek. the Greek word is ktizó. The definition follows under the heading of Strong’s Concordance on that page:
“ktizó: to build, create
Original Word: κτίζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ktizó
Phonetic Spelling: (ktid’-zo)
Definition: to build, create
Usage: I create, form, shape, make, always of God.
HELPS Word-studies
2936 ktízō – properly, create, which applies only to God who alone can make what was “not there before” (Latin, ex nihilo, out of nothing, J.Thayer); figuratively to begin (“found”), especially what is habitable or useful.
[This is also the meaning of this term from Homer to Josephus.]” end quote from https://biblehub.com/greek/2936.htm
So, before we read any of this, anyone who is paying attention should be able to tell the subject of Colossians 1:16 is speaking of Jesus. We know this from verse 15 right before this which begins with “The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.” The Son is the subject there, and the same subject continues in verse 16 as Jesus, because the last subject mentioned in verse 16 is “the firstborn of all creation”. A rule of grammar is that if you can’t tell what the subject is referring to, you go back to the last subject previously mentioned to keep the correct one front and center. We know creation from verse 15 is not the subject of verse 15, it is the direct object, so it is not the subject of 16 for that matter. Col 1:16 reads, “For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.”
Here, there is no mention of God the Father or God the Holy Spirit doing any creating, but Jesus did the creating. Since Jesus is spoken of many times in the Bible as the firstborn, we can be even more convinced the subject of verse 16 is Jesus, who is carried out the action of creating. After reading the definition above in the Greek for verse 1:16 “were created” we find it is a type of creation which applies only to God, which is “Latin, ex nihilo, out of nothing”. So the person doing the creating in verse 16 is speaking of Jesus. And because Jesus in verse 16 is doing something only God can do, as the Greek tells us, we therefore know quite simply, Jesus is God! LG
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