One of the major tenets of the beliefs of the Jehovah’s Witnesses is that Jesus Christ is a creature, not God. They do not believe in the trinity; they simply teach that Christ was a created spirit-person created directly by God (which is why He is called ‘Son’) who existed long before our history began. Jesus was the instrument that God used to do His creating on earth, which is why He is called the “Word.”
The claims made by Jehovah’s Witnesses are completely unfounded. The Bible does teach the trinity, and it also teaches the deity of Jesus Christ. Jesus is God who took on flesh, and not only does the Bible assign Him the title of “God,” but it is one that He claimed for Himself on numerous occasions.
One of Jehovah’s Witnesses favorite texts that they put forward, which they say teaches that Jesus is a created being and not God, is Colossians 1:15. Here, Paul wrote that Jesus is “the firstborn of all creation.” What else can that mean except that Christ was the first thing that was created? Does it, then, mean that since Christ is also the “firstborn from the dead” (Colossians 1:18) that He was the first to be revived from death? Certainly not! Christ Himself raised several from the dead during His ministry, not to mention the several who were raised from the dead in the Old Testament. What does it all mean, then?
The meaning of the passage as a whole is found at the end of verse 18 and in verse 19. Christ has the first place or preeminence in everything, because the fullness dwells in Him. Fullness of what? “For in Him all the fulness of Deity dwells in bodily form” (Colossians 2:9).
