Proof Text
Some believers think that Jesus, the Word of God, was created by the Father somewhere in the eternal past. One of the proof texts used to support this theory that Jesus was made (and therefore did not always exist like the Father) is in Revelation 3.
. . . These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God" (Revelation 3:14, KJV).
This verse has been twisted to mean that the Amen (Jesus), who is also the Beginning, the Alpha as well as the Omega, came into literal existence at his birth through Mary.
A more accurate translation of the Greek behind this verse is the following.
. . . These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginner (not the Beginning!) of the creation of God (Revelation 3:14, HBFV).
What Does It Mean?
So, what does this verse mean? Does it mean that God created Jesus? Of what is Christ the beginning? Believe it or not, although Genesis 1:1 is the first literal verse in the Bible, it is not the first verse chronologically speaking! The first verse in time sequence is John 1:1, which says that before the "beginning" was the Word (Jesus Christ) who was both with and was God!
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
All things came into being through Him, and not even one thing that was created came into being without Him (John 1:1 - 3).
John 1:3 above states that all things (meaning the entire physical universe we can see and the spiritual universe which we cannot) were made by Jesus. John goes even further and declares that there is not one thing (except, of course, God the Father and God the Son) in existence anywhere that does not trace its creation to the Word!
The book of Genesis says that in the beginning God created living creatures after their KIND (Genesis 1:21) but made man after the image of the God kind (of which, at the time, was composed of two God Beings, the Father and Jesus Christ - Genesis 1:26).
A "kind" does not become a family until they produce their first offspring who are genetically related to them. According to an online dictionary, a woman and a man that are married are technically not a family. They only become a family when they produce at least one or more children that are genetically like themselves.
Key Passages
Ephesians 3 contains a key passage that will help answer our question about Jesus. These two verses state the following.
For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named . . . (Ephesians 3:14 - 15, HBFV).
The Bible also states in Romans 8 that Jesus is the firstborn among many brethren. As stated previously, "kinds" do not become families until the first offspring is produced.
Because those whom He did foreknow, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His own Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren (Romans 8:29).
When Jesus was resurrected to an external existence he became "the firstborn from the dead" (Colossians 1:18) and the beginning of the God family. He was the literal transition from God as a KIND to God as a family! Romans 1 confirms this when it states the following.
Who was declared the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead - Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 1:4);
Jesus Christ was decidedly not created by God! He has existed for eternity as a member of the Godhead. The Father did, however, make him the beginning of his family, a family where every human being has the potential of entering.