Does the Bible Teach That
Jesus Created the Universe?
Many would be surprised
to learn that none other than Jesus Christ, the declared Son, of God the
Father, is the very one who spoke all things into existence and today holds it together
“by the word of His power.” (Hebrews
1:1-3)
This is an
astonishing truth, and far too many Christians either minimize this Bible
teaching or are in complete ignorance of it.
The one in
whom we have placed our faith and trust to save our poor, lost souls, is the
very member of the Godhead—Jesus Christ—who spoke the words recorded in the
first chapter of the Bible, “Let there be light…Let the dry land appear…Let the
earth bring forth grass…Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life”…and so on (Genesis 1).
Why is it so
important that we understand this amazing truth about Jesus Christ as the
Creator, who brought forth matter out of nothing and gave life to lifeless
creatures of his design? It is because
there is an all-out attack by the enemy, in opposition to the revealed truth
from God, as to the origin of the human race.
The enemy doesn’t want us to know the history our real roots. If we would come to realize the dynamic power
of Jesus Christ, then we would have a lesser desire to place our trust in our
own strength but, rather, in Christ Himself, as our all-sufficient Lord.
As hard as it may
be to comprehend, the Bible clearly teaches that Jesus Christ is the Word who
spoke on the six days of creation, and all things came into existence, “and it
was good.”
Where in the
Bible can we turn to find evidence that Jesus Christ was the Creator of all
things?
In the New
Testament book of John chapter eight, we read about a conversation between a
group of Jews and Jesus, regarding his true identity. Jesus made a statement that caused his
hearers to become so enraged, that they took up stones in an attempt to stone
him to death! He told them that before
their great patriarchal figure Abraham had even lived, that He Himself
existed. To the Jews of that day, His
claim was considered a statement of blasphemy, worthy of death. They all knew that Abraham had been dead for
centuries by this time, yet Jesus wasn’t even fifty years of age. How could such a thing be so? The fact was, Jesus had existed long before
Abraham, for Jesus was and is the great I AM, the self-existent God who created
all things in heaven and in earth. (John
8:47-59)
In the first
chapter of the gospel according to John, we read the following:
“1 In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The
same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was
made. 10 He was in the world, and THE WORLD WAS MADE
BY HIM, and the world knew him not.”
We must ask
the question, Who is the Word in these verses?
If we can discover the identity of the Word, then we will know who made
all things.
If we scan
down in chapter one, to verse number fourteen, we read:
“14 And the Word was
made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
Ah, now it is
becoming clearer. The Word who was with God,
who was God Himself, and was the being who did the speaking during the creation
week, having made all things that were made, is the one who “was MADE FLESH,
and DWELT AMONG US.” Of course we know
this was none other than Jesus Christ, the one who existed EVEN PRIOR TO HIS
PHYSICAL BIRTH. It was the Christ, who was
called the Word, because he was the spokesman for the Godhead. The method God used to create, was SPEAKING. He spoke, and it came to pass.
This is not
all of the proof that Jesus Christ was and is the Creator of all things. There is more!
In the very
next verse, following the statement that Jesus was “made flesh, and dwelt among
us,” a man by the name of John the Baptist is quoted as having said about
Jesus, “This was he [Jesus] of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is
preferred before me: for he was before me.”
What makes this so interesting is that John was the biological cousin of
Jesus, born six months PRIOR to Jesus’ birth.
However, John identifies Jesus as having been BEFORE him. How could this be, unless John knew the true
identity of the Christ? He understood that
Jesus was the preexistent Son of God!
The apostle
Paul, when writing to the Christians in the city of Colossians about Christ as
the IMAGE of God, wrote:
“15 Who is the image
of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 For
by him [Christ] 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 THING WERE CREATED BY HIM AND FOR HIM: 17 And
he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” (Colossians 1:15-17)
That is a powerful
statement that Paul made about the person and work of Jesus Christ. If Jesus was an ordinary man of simple faith
in God, then Paul’s statement would be one of great irreverence and slander
against God Himself—even blasphemous.
There should be no such claims made of any man or woman born through the
linage of Adam, unless this man was born via a virgin, was fathered by God the
Father and then lived out His entire life without any sin whatsoever. But we should have no fear about Jesus being
unworthy of such statements of grandeur. No statement, even close to the one written by
Paul about Jesus, can be found in the Bible about any other man or woman: not Moses, not Abraham, not Isaac, not Jacob,
not Ruth, Esther or Mary…not any other person—Jesus only!
In the book of
Ephesians, again Paul mentions this grand truth about Jesus as the Creator of “all
things”:
“And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the
mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who CREATED
ALL THINGS BY JESUS CHRIST.” (Ephesians
3:9)
When the
followers of Jesus Christ come to clearly comprehend that the one in whom they’ve
placed their faith and trust—as their Lord and Savior—is also the one who actually
created this universe and all things in it, they can, with an even greater
confidence, rest assured that their soul is safe in His almighty power and
loving grace.
by David Cosma, baysidedave7@gmail.com, October 13, 2013
