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Was Jesus created? – No. not according many Bible scholars, preachers, creeds, and Christian denominations, who say Jesus has existed from eternity. Notice:

“The Son uncreated . . . the Son eternal”—Athanasian Creed

“Within the one Being that is God, there exists three eternally . . . coeternal persons”—The Forgotten Trinity, by James White, p 23

Since this is the case, why is there even any question about whether or not Jesus was created? — The reason why is because of what the Bible has to say.

Isn’t Jesus the creator? — Let’s see what the Bible says:

Colossians 1:15 – “He is the image of the invisible God; the firstborn of all creation” (ESV; NRSV; NAB). The “image” is never the same as, or equal to, the original. Also, Jesus was “firstborn”, which can never be said of Almighty God, and Jesus is referred to as part of creation, as “the firstborn of every creature” (KJV), therefore a “creature”, which can never be said of Almighty God. Jesus is clearly shown throughout the Bible to have a beginning to his existence. His “origin is from of old, from ancient days” (Micah 5:2 NRSV). The Trinity doctrine asserts that the Son of God, Jesus Christ, is eternal, but the scriptures, both the Old and the New Testaments, prove that idea to be false.

“Through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth . . . Everything was created through him and for him” (Colossians 1:16 NLT). Jesus is neither the originator, nor the Creator. Almighty God is, but notice that he created everything “through” Jesus. “Christ . . . is preeminent and supreme a God’s agent in the creation of all things” (NAB note on Colossians 1:16).

“The words of the Amen, the Faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation” (Revelation 3:14 ESV). This means that Jesus was created. Yes, Jesus is “the firstborn of all creation” (Colossians 1:15 ESV), or “of every creature” (KJV). God created Jesus, so Jesus is a creature, and, of course, a creature cannot be God.

There is one famous reference to Jesus, in a verse which predicts his birthplace, and mentions something very significant about his existence in doing so: “But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days” (Micah 5:2 NRSV).

Matthew 2:1-6 confirms that Micah 5:2 accurately predicted the birthplace of the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth. But Micah 5:2 also does something else very significant. It says that Jesus had an “origin”, a beginning, not with his birth on earth, but long before that, in the distant past. This scriptural fact overturns the key Trinitarian claim that the Son of God, Jesus Christ, has always been eternal, therefore “uncreated”. Jesus’ having an “origin” is powerful proof that he has not always been eternal, but was created.

John 3:16 – “God gave his only begotten Son” (NASB).  “Only begotten” means that Jesus had a beginning. “Whose origins are from of old, from ancient times” (Micah 5:2 NIV), which clearly shows that Jesus had an “origin”, a beginning to his life, indicating that he was created by God. The Trinity doctrine claims that Jesus had no beginning, which means he’s God, so the most famous verse of the entire Bible (John 3:16) flatly contradicts the Trinity!

“Yahweh created me, first-fruits of his fashioning, before the oldest of his works”—Proverbs 8:22 NJB

“The LORD begot me, the beginning of his works, the forerunner of his deeds of long ago. From of old I was formed, at the first, before the earth. When there were no deeps I was brought forth, when there were no fountains or springs of water; Before the mountains settled into place, before the hills, I was brought forth, when the earth and the fields were not yet made; nor the first clods of the world When he established the heavens, there was I . . . when he fixed the foundations of earth, there I was beside him as an artisan”—-Proverbs 8:22-30 NAB

Proverbs 8:22-30, above, has Jesus, as wisdom personified (1 Corinthians 1:24; Colossians 2:2,3), explaining about how he was created by Yahweh God. This harmonizes, of course, with the entire Bible, which shows that:

“God created everything through him”—John 1:3 NLT

“Through the Son he created everything”—Hebrews 1:2 NLT

The scriptures themselves debunk the Trinitarian “uncreated “different Jesus” (2 Corinthians 11:4 NLT), the “eternal uncreated God-man” of Trinitarians, who “have bartered for a different god” (Psalm 16:4 NASB).