{"id":620,"date":"2011-08-29T07:09:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T11:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=620"},"modified":"2011-08-29T07:09:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T11:09:05","slug":"what-is-preeminence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=620","title":{"rendered":"What is preeminence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Col. 1:18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things, he might have the preeminence.\u00a0 Can you shed some light on this verse?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Answer:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Col. 1:18 is referring to Jesus as the head of the church; Eph. 5:23, \u201c\u2026..even as Christ is the head of the church\u2026..\u201d\u00a0 The church is the body of Christ; 1 Cor.12:27, \u201cnow ye are the body of Christ\u2026..\u201d\u00a0 Jesus is the beginning or first born from the dead because he was the first to be resurrected with a new body; 1 Cor.15:44, \u201cit is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.\u00a0 Jesus is the preeminence because he is ranked first.\u00a0 He was the first to have a spiritual body; 1 Cor.15:23\u2026..every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ&#8217;s at his coming.\u201d\u00a0 Jesus is the fullness of the plan of God; Col. 1:17, \u201c.\u2026..he is before all things, and by him all things consist.\u201d\u00a0 He brought us back into fellowship with God; Col. 1:20, \u201c\u2026..having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself\u2026..\u201d<strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Col. 1:18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things, he might have the preeminence.\u00a0 Can you shed some light on this verse? \u00a0 Answer:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Col. 1:18 is referring to Jesus as the head of the church; Eph. 5:23, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-620","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/620\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}