Some people do not believe Jesus is God, but was a created Being. Is Jesus God?

The Scriptures prove that He is God and not a created Being! The organization you mentioned believes that Christ was a created being, not the Creator. Further, they teach that Jesus Christ is, in fact, none other than the archangel Michael. Some have even suggested that He may have been the twin brother of the great archangel Lucifer—the very Lucifer who later became Satan, the devil. Those who hold this view believe that God the Father stands alone as the One Being who has eternally existed.

If Jesus was created, then how could He have been an adequate sacrifice to atone for sins committed against an infinite God? Think for a moment! Jesus—not an angel—must have been God to adequately atone for our sins.

But does it really matter whether or not we believe that Jesus is God? Indeed, it does! If one places faith in a false Christ or another gospel, one that is not described in Scripture, can this false Christ save them (Galatians 1:6–8)? Truly, the identity of Christ is of utmost importance. And yet, many are leading people astray by teaching that Jesus was a created being.

But what does your Bible teach? Was Jesus a created being? Let us search the Scriptures (John 5:39; Acts 17:11).

John 1:1, 3 contains two direct statements that tell us it was the preexistent Jesus who created all things. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.”

Paul backed up exactly what John wrote: “For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist” (Colossians 1:16–17). Notice all the “alls”!

Since Jesus created all things, He could not have been one of the “created things.” Paul adds, “And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist” (Colossians 1:17).

Christ is the one in the Godhead who did the creating. He is the Word—the Spokesman—who said, “Let there be light” and there was light, “Let there be firmament,” “Let there be waters, seas, grass, herbs, fruit trees,” and then created man himself (Genesis 1:3, 6, 10, 11, 26). And it was so.

The scholar, Dr. Norman Geisler, comments on Colossians 1:17: “The context of this passage makes it clear that there are no exceptions; Christ is the Creator of all things including angels and everything visible or invisible. Nowhere is this made more clear that Christ is not a creature—angelic or otherwise—than in the relation of angels to Him. Since Christ could not be both the Creator of everything and at the same time a creature Himself, it is necessary to conclude that He is Himself the uncreated Creator of all creation” (Christian Apologetics, 1988, p. 338).

He adds a footnote: “In view of the clear teaching that Christ is Creator and not a creature, the Arian misinterpretations of phrases like Christ is ‘firstborn’ (Colossians 1:15) or ‘beginning of creation’ (Revelation 3:14) are wrong. Christ is ‘firstborn’ in the sense of being the unique (not created) Son of God. Christ is first over creation, not first in it” (ibid.). At Christ’s second coming, Christians will also be metabolically changed (1 Corinthians 15:51–54)—literally born into the God family as His begotten children, but Christ is the first!

Hebrews 1:1–2 speaks of the Son as the Being through whom God created the worlds. Also see Colossians 1:16–17; Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 40:25–26, 28. Jesus was not created. He existed from eternity along with God the Father!