Objection · Case 04 · The Trinity
Jewish Wisdom literature (Proverbs 8, Wisdom of Solomon, Philo’s Logos) already describes God creating through a personified attribute. Isn’t John applying Wisdom language to Jesus poetically?
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Response
The Wisdom background is real and is where the language comes from. The difference is that Wisdom in those texts is a personification of God’s own attribute, not a creature, so if Jesus is identified with Wisdom he is placed on God’s side of the line, which is the claim. The alternative, that Jesus is a created being through whom God made other things, is Arius’s reading, and it requires an exception the text does not state. Poetic or not, all things were made through him leaves no created category for the Word to belong to.
About this exhibit
This objection is to The Word made all things, John 1:3.
John says of the Word, who is then identified as Jesus, that “all things were made through him,” and that nothing that exists was made without him.