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The Amplified Bible, and other Bibles bring forth. Rendering aion as age does no harm to the point
being made, for we see the Son being the agent through which the Father is creating all things. I
would further suggest that “the ages” encompass all that is contained within them, including the
heavens and the earth and all their inhabitants.

The Father can be said to have formed the creation, but He did so through the agency of the Son. As
John testified, nothing came into being apart from the Son. The great truths of Scripture do not stand
alone on one verse, or one statement. A truth may be declared in one passage, but additional insight
is obtained in other Scriptures. We must take the entire counsel of the word of God and form a
comprehensive view of truth where all the various passages complement one another to form a
harmonious whole. If we find a passage that contradicts, then we have either understood verses
incorrectly, or there may be a translation error. Translation errors are abundant in Scripture, for men
translate according to their understanding, an understanding that is often faulty.

Fitting All the Pieces Together

In the previous chapter we looked at a number of Scriptures that reveal that the Son’s being and
existence is subordinate to the Father. The Son of God did not always co-exist with the Father. The
Bible reveals that at some point the Son was generated from the Father. He is the “monogenes” of
the Father, the only direct generation of God. In contrast, the Bible reveals that God the Father has
always been. He is the self-existent One.

The Son is not self-existent. He came forth from the Father. As one considers what the terms Father
and Son mean, and what is entailed in being “born,” they will see that it would be inconsistent to
speak of Yahshua as the Son and firstborn of God while holding to the view that His existence and
beginning is identical to that of the Father. How can Christ be the “firstborn” of the Father and
always have existed with Him?

Being born implies that one had a beginning and arose out of another. You are the offspring of your
father and mother. You had a definite beginning. We can debate whether your beginning was at the
moment of birth, the moment of conception, or whether you existed further back as the seed of your
father and ancestors. We could even suggest that your beginning lay as far back as the thought of
God before the earth was formed, for the Bible says “Before I formed you in the womb I knew