Hi unbaptized thanks for the response, I'd like to take a look at your posts, first you said:
"First of all I want you to do some research on that scripture. The name of God was taken out of the Bible and replaced with the word Lord. So the original hebrew should have stated (YHWH or Jehovah or Yahweh) in the place of Lord. That's why it's hard for some to distinguish between Almighty God and Jesus our Lord and Saviour. Jesus is God's chosen one. The one mentioned in the verse you just quoted from Isaiah 43."
Okay, let me start by pointing out that the "Lord" you spoke of in Isaiah 43 is not Lord, but "LORD", and we have no idea what God's name sounds like. Jehovah is a Catholic name, given to save time.
Next I've got a question for you, I understand that the Watch Tower Organization replaced Lord for Jehovah in the New Testament. Would you mind telling me what criteria had to be met for Lord to become Jehovah?
Next up is where you said:
"Second, Jesus was the firstborn of all creation by God and through Jesus all other things were created. 1 Col 1:13-20"
If the word "firstborn" means, in this case, that Jesus is the first created, it causes a great problem with John 1:3 which says, "Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made."
But now I have a problem, what do I do with firstborn? My problem is solved in the Old Testament starting in Genesis 48:10-14, to save space I won't quote it, but in this passage we find that Israel blesses Ephraim as the firstborn when Manasseh war really the one born first. Look at Jeremiah 31:9 you see it confirmed that Ephraim is the "firstborn". Not because he was born first, but because he was in a higher position. Look at King David he was the last born of Jesse yet in Psalm 89:27 God says "I also shall make him My first-born the highest of the kings of the earth."
In Colossians 1:15 "firstborn" means first in rank, pre-eminent one. That was Paul's intention when he wrote the word "prototokos", if he had intended first one created he would have written, "protoktisis" which means first created.
You mentioned that "through" Jesus all "other" things were created. Just a reminder that the word "other" is not in the text, and by adding other it doesn't clarify the text, it changes the text. Now I understand that the Watch Tower teaching is that God used Jesus, or rather Michael as a tool to create everything and one of the reasons they teach that is because of the word "through." Why does the Watchtower insist that through can only mean, be means of, like a tool. If that is the only way "through" can be used there is a problem with Romans 11:35- 36 which says: "Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?" For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
See how that word causes a problem? If it can only mean "by means of" the question would be who used God? When John 1:3 says "through him" concerning Jesus it means "as a result of, or because of" John 1:3 could very well say "Because of him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made." The same would fit for Colossians 1:16.
Next you said:
"It is not belittling Jesus to be a creation and not the Almighty God, that's why is called the son of God. He is the image of the invisible God."
If Jesus is God incarnate, it would be belittling, and you would have the wrong Jesus.
"So Michael, Jesus is the High Priest and Anointed King of Almighty God. Amen"
That's the teaching of the Watchtower Organization not the Bible.
I'll continue in another post.
