Doesn’t Revelation 3:14 teach that Jesus was created?

A quick reading of this Bible verse might sound like Jesus was created when our world was first made. The Greek word for “beginning” here is arche and can be understood in an active or passive way. If we take it in the passive sense, then it would indeed suggest Jesus was created at the beginning of creation. But in the active sense, it would mean Jesus is the Creator, the great Beginning of all things. Notice how the NKJV capitalizes the word “Beginning” to emphasize this latter understanding.

Picture yourself standing in Eden talking with Adam and Eve. As you take in all the beauties surrounding you, you might gasp and say, “Wow! Who began all of this?” They would answer, “Jesus is the Beginner. He initiated all that you see. Christ is the Creator who started all things in our world.”

Many other Bible verses support Christ as the One who stands at the beginning of all creation. John writes, “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 were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:1–3). If all things were made through Christ, then He must be eternal, self-existing, and have no beginning.

In the book of Hebrews, this same truth shines through: “[God] has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds” (Hebrews 1:2). Jesus made more than our Earth. The passage says He made the “worlds.” The phrase “all things” is pretty inclusive and covers the entire universe.

Christ is the One who initiates, who is the prime mover, and begins all things. John is simply pointing out that Jesus is our Creator.

Key Bible Texts

And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; (Revelation 3:14 KJV)