Quiz #10

The literary structure of Colossians 1:15–20 serves its theological message by showing Christ to be preeminent in all things, firstly in his preexistence and work of creation and then in his postexistence and work of redemption.

Whom do “Image of God” (Col. 1:15a) and “Firstborn over All Creation” (Col. 1:15b) refer to?

Before Jesus assumed a created human image, he was the image of the invisible God in an absolute, uncreated, underived sense as the eternally begotten of the Father. 

“Image of God” in Colossians 15a conveys the essential ____ and ____ distinction between the Father and the Son. (Fill in the blanks). 

What does it mean that the Son is “firstborn over all creation”?

In Dr. Tipton’s triangle diagram, how does the Son of God “follow after” the first Adam?

Reflecting on the relationship between the absolute, archetypal image of God and the created, ectypal image of God, Dr. Tipton suggests that there is an analogical relation between the processional relations in the Godhead and ____. (Fill in the blank). 

What does Paul mean by referring to Christ as “the beginning” (Col. 1:18b)? 

How is the beginning of Colossians 1:18b even greater than that of the absolute beginning of Genesis 1:1?

Contrary to Ridderbos’ organic joining of the preexistence and postexistence of the Son of God, Bultmann’s Christolology ___. (Fill in the blank).