BSN: Messiah was God’s Agent for Creation

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Jesus showed the disciples from the Scriptures that He had been the one through whom God created the heavens and the earth. Correspondingly, the apostles make this point in their writings. Jn 1:1-3; 1 Cor 8:5-6; Col 1:15-17; Heb 1:2, 10; 3:3 all confirm that the Son was the agent through whom God made the world. And for this reason Gen 1:26 says “Let Us make man in Our image” rather than “Let Me make man in My image” – implying a principal and agent.

See also Prov 8:22-31, which personifies wisdom as God’s agent of creation, and correlate with 1 Cor 1:30 where Paul says that Jesus “became to us wisdom.”

That God created everything through Messiah implies that He created Messiah first. This is seen more explicitly in verses like Col 1:15 and Rev 3:14. Of course, in the light of all that God has revealed, we can see now that Messiah was an identity that God wore as a garment – not a separate being, not a creature.

More pointedly, correlate Jn 1:1, Rev 19:13, and other scriptures that call Jesus “the word of God” (Jesus Christ as the Word of God Personified) with Heb 11:3 which explicitly declares “the worlds were prepared by the word of God…” Of course, this also fits with what Gen 1-2 reveals about how the heavens and earth were created without personifying the word of God; yet there is Gen 1:26 which says, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…” Note also the distinction between God and His spokesman as reflected in Acts 14:12 – adding even more significance to Messiah’s title of “Prophet” (Deut 18:15