Re: The Watch Tower Society vs Christianity
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†. Col 1:15 . . He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation
The Watch Tower Society has appropriated that verse as evidence that the Word of John 1:1-3 was the first thing that God ever created. However, the New Testament Greek word for "firstborn" in that verse is prototokos which the Watchtower Society has construed to mean "created first" but prototokos never means created first; no, it always means born first; viz: the eldest offspring. The correct Greek word for created first is protoktistos.
The average door-to-door Watch Tower Society missionary doesn't know this; and no doubt would care little for it anyway. To them; born first and created first are one and the same.
FYI: Though the birth order of the child born first is chronologically set in concrete; its advantages are transferable to a younger sibling; e.g. Esau and Jacob (Gen 25:23) Manasseh and Ephraim (Gen 48:13-14) and Reuben and Joseph. (Gen 49:3-4, 1Chr 5:1)
There was a time when David held the rank of God's firstborn (Ps 89:20-27). Anon, its advantages were transferred to one of David's sons. (Ps 110:1, Dan 7:13-14, Mark 12:35-37, Php 2:9-11, Col 1:15)
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