Is Christ a Separate Creation?
"For as the Father has life in himself so He (the Father) has granted the Son to have life in Himself." (John 5:26)
Christ was "the first-born of all creation." (Colossians 1:15)
He was "the beginning of God's creation." (Revelation 3:14).
"Beginning" [Greek, ar·khe'] cannot rightly be interpreted to mean that Christ was the 'beginner' of God's creation. John uses various forms of the Greek word ar·khe' more than 20 times, and these always have the common meaning of "beginning." Christ was created by God as the beginning of God's creations.
"For us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all
things . . . and one Lord, Christ, through whom are all things." (1 Corinthians 8:6) God said: "Let us make man in our image." (Genesis 1:26)
The Bible calls Christ the "only-begotten Son" of God. (John 1:14; 3:16, 18; 1 John 4:9)
The Bible speaks of God as the "Father" who is the senior. Christ is the junior, in time, position, and power.
Christ was the "one mediator between God and men," (1 Timothy 2:5) A mediator is someone separate from those who need mediation.
Christ never claimed to be God. Everything he said about himself indicates that he did not consider himself equal to God in power. In every period of his existence, whether in heaven or on earth, his speech and conduct reflect subordination to God. God is always the superior.
Over and over again, Christ showed that he was separate from God and that he
had a God above him, a God whom he worshiped, a God whom he called
"Father." Christ said, "You, the only true God."
(John 17:3)
In John 20:17 he said to Mary Magdalene: "I am ascending to my Father and
your Father, to my God and your God.". In 2 Corinthians 1:3 Paul
confirms this relationship: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Christ."
Christ and God are distinctly separate:
"For us there is one God, the Father,
. . . and there is one Lord, Christ." (1 Corinthians 8:6)
Christ stated: "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone." (Mark 10:18) So Christ was saying that no one is as good as God is, not even himself. God is good in a way that separates him from Christ.
Christ made statements such as: "The Son cannot do anything at his own pleasure, he can only do what he sees his Father doing." (John 5:19) "I have come down from heaven to do, not my will, but the will of him that sent me." (John 6:38) "What I teach is not mine, but belongs to him that sent me." (John 7:16)
In the parable of the vineyard. He likened God to the owner of the vineyard, who traveled abroad and left it in the charge of vine dressers. When the owner later sent a slave to get some of the fruit of the vineyard, the vine dressers beat the slave and sent him away empty handed. Then the owner sent a second slave, and later a third, both of whom got the same treatment. Finally, the owner said: "I will send my son [Christ] the beloved. Likely they will respect this one." But the corrupt vine dressers said: "'This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.' With that they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him." (Luke 20:9-16) Thus Christ illustrated his own position as one being sent by God to do God's will, just as a father sends a submissive son.
Christ when he came up out of the water after being baptized, the Father in heaven said:
"This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved." (Matthew 3:16, 17)
When the mother of two disciples asked that her sons sit one at the right and one at the left of Christ when he came into his Kingdom. Christ answered: "As for seats at my right hand and my left, these are not mine to grant; they belong to those to whom they have been allotted by my Father," (Matthew 20:23) But Christ could not give them, for they were God's to give
When Christ was about to die, he showed who his superior was by praying:
"Father, if you wish, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, let, not my will, but yours take place." (Luke 22:42)
Christ cried out:
"My God, my God, why have you deserted me?" (Mark 15:34)
Christ also said:
"Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit." (Luke 23:46)
When Christ gave his prophecy about the end of this world, he stated:
"But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." (Mark 13:32)
Speaking of the resurrection of Christ,
"God exalted this one
[Christ] . . . to his right hand." (Acts 5:31)
Paul said:
"God exalted him to a superior position." (Philippians 2:9)
Christ entered "heaven itself, so that he could appear in the actual presence of God on our behalf." (Hebrews 9:24)
Christ is always presented as separate and lesser, a humble servant of God. That is why the Bible plainly says that "the head of Christ is God" in the same way that "the head of every man is Christ." (1 Corinthians 11:3) And this is why Christ himself said: "The Father is greater than I." (John 14:28)
The Bible plainly states that Christ was created by God the father, Christ did not exist before his creation. Yet he did! How can that be?
Lets use an earth worm as our example, take an earth worm and cut it in half
and both halves will re-grow into 2 separate earth worms, yet they are both from
the same worm making them one in the same. It is in this way the creator divided
into to 2 separate beings, yet one in the same.
In dividing he created a duplicate image, clone of himself, "he
that hath seen me has seen the father"
(John 14:9), thus he became a created being while at the same time being one
with the Father. This also makes him God, one in the same.
