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Alpha and Omega |
Dear Brethren,
Do you understand
the true nature of Jesus Christ? Could you defend the truth of the
eternal nature of Jesus against those who teach that He is a created
being? Jesus is Eternal – He has been and will always be the same
for all eternity (Isaiah 57:15).
Arianism is an
heretical school of thought that teaches that Jesus has not always
existed. Arius lived about AD 250-336. He taught that the Son of
God, the Logos, was a created being. There are forms of Arianism
that are extant today.
We need to be able
to defend the truth against all heresy, but especially against those
that are a clear and present danger. The misunderstood Scripture
upon which this false doctrine relies is Revelation 3:14 “Unto
the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith
the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of
the creation of God.”
This is a poor
translation that allows some to think that Jesus Christ, the Messiah
and Logos, was the first being created by God. The correct
translation of this verse is: “The beginner of the creation
of God.” It was Jesus who began all the creation – as we shall
see. The King James translators did not have a good grasp of the
true doctrines of Christ.
Please notice that
it was Jesus who created absolutely all things. “By Him
[Jesus Christ] were all things created,
that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:
all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all
things, and by Him all things consist.”
(Colossians 1:16-17 )
It was God the
Father who created all things by and through Jesus Christ. “…I
should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which
from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who
created all things by Jesus Christ.” (Ephesians
3:8-9)
Indeed, Jesus is
the Alpha and the Omega, meaning He existed in the
very beginning with the Father – before time itself – and He will
always exist. “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and
the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and
which is to come, the Almighty. I John, [the beloved apostle] who
also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the
kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called
Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ…
and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am Alpha and Omega
, the first and the last.” (Revelation 1:8-11)
John, also, had to
deal with similar heresies in his day. John made it perfectly clear
that Jesus existed in the beginning with the Father, as the Word, or
Logos. And, John, by the inspiration of God’s Holy Spirit, declared
that Jesus Christ, the soon coming Messiah, is the one who created
all things in the heavens and earth. “In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
The same [Jesus Christ] was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made
that was made.”
(John 1:1-3)
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