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Q Topic: Colossians 1:15 reads in the NKJV (and is similar in most translations): "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation." Jehovah's Witnesses understand that by Christ being the firstborn over all creation, he is actually the first created being through which all other things are created (see their New World Translation). Mormons, on the other hand, take the english translations quite literally and believe that Christ is literally the firstborn child of Heavenly Father and one of his goddess wives (thus Jesus is our eldest brother). The Greek word translated “firstborn” is prototokos. How should Christians understand the use of this term in this context, and how might Christians in turn respond to the interpretations of Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons regarding the nature of Christ as the "firstborn"?

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I think that Christians must be able to appropriately interpret the nature of the true and invisible God after recognizing the pagan context while the term “prototokos” had been utilized by the Greeks, the pagans and the Mormons. This is because there is nowhere mentioned in history that God the Father had a goddess wife or goddess wives. It is an inappropriate assumption because it has no religious evidence or historical evidence. Jesus is the Begotten Son and not a Son who had been born of God the Father and another woman to be the mother of Christ. That is why Mother Mary or the Blessed Virgin Mary had been the chosen handmaid of God through whom Jesus had to be born for getting a virgin birth.