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Topical Lexicon---The Scope of 1504 eikōn (image)
Christ, the Perfect Image
Colossians 1:15 declares, “The Son is the image of the invisible God.” Likewise,
2 Corinthians 4:4 identifies “the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” Jesus is not merely God-like; He is God made visible, the exact and final revelation by which every other image is tested.
When trying to find what the Bible means by a given word, one cannot go to the dictionary and count on that to do the job. We have access to Greek and Hebrew analysis, Bible Lexicons, and Bible Dictionaries. That is where we need to look. The Bible has a uniqueness of language usage and that is not always found in transactions into English but becomes clear from the original language.
The text states that he was before all things. Is there something before God? It says he is preeminent in everything. As to the resurrection, he is the first of many to follow to be resurrected.
Also covered in my post. You simply jumped the gun in responding.
See what glorification means in 1 Cor 15 and Rev 21. But here you say God turned his sovereignty over to another, and a created being at that. Does that sound right?
There is no questin that prototokos is translated "firstborn". The question is what does the Bible mean by firstborn in that passage. If you use the full counsel of God, and let scripture interpret scripture, as is the correct Protestant way, (sola scriptura) and consider all the places where Script createdure tells us and shows us that this babe born in Bethlehem will be Emanuel, God with us, and that he is God, then "firstborn" in this case does not mean first to be born (in the sense of created by God) than it meant Isaace was Abraham's oldes son when he was called Abraham's firstborn. In the case of Jesus being the firstborn of all creation it means preeminent---the beginning. (In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God----" And the Word became flesh and walked among us.") Or we can go to Rev. "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end."
Where did he send him from?
You can't have it both ways by playing games with words. If God tells humans and angels to worship Jesus, and Jesus is not God but something God made (created) he would be telling them to worship an idol---something other than himself. This is why we need to be very careful with our theology and our statements in handling the very word of God. We need to double check what we declare to be true and make sure it is not producing teachings that are antithetical to God.
If God created Jesus, then the above passage would be God crowning a creature as God in his place. Since obviously such a thing would never happen, the above must refer to God accepting the work of propitiation that Jesus did, crowning him as King after his mission as one of us was complete. Making him the only mediator between God and man, and the command to all humans, believers and unbelievers alike, to worship him.