What Does the Bible Say About God and Jesus? - Conclusion of Jesus a Separate Creation

As "Wisdom" in his prehuman existence, Jesus goes on to say that he was "by his [God's] side, a master craftsman." (Proverbs 8:30, JB) In harmony with this role as master craftsman, Colossians 1:16 says of Jesus that "through him God created everything in heaven and on earth." - Today's English Version (TEV).

So it was by means of the master worker, his junior partner, as it were, that Almighty God, the Father, from whom are all things .  . . and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through are all things."  - 1 CORINTHIANS 8:6. Catholic edition. 

It no doubt was to this master craftsman that God said: "Let us make man in our image." (Genesis 1:26) Some have claimed that the "us" and "our"  in this expression indicate a Trinity.  But if you were to say, 'Let us make something for ourselves," no one would normally understand that several persons are combined as one inside of you. You simply mean that two or more individuals will work together on something. So, too, when God used "us" and "our" he was simply addressing another individual, his first creation, the master craftsman, the prehuman Jesus. 

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