JESUS CHRIST, SON 0F GOD, THE FIRSTBORN 0F ALL CREATION AND SAVIOR

50 The greatest of God’s works is the incarnation of his Son, Jesus Christ. Being the Firstborn of ail creation, he is before ail and ail things hold together in him (cf. Col. 1, 15-17). All things

have been created in him, through him, and for him (cf. Col. 1, 15 if.).

Having become obedient unto death, he was exalted as Lord of ail things, and was manifested 10 US through his resurrection as God’s Son in power (cf. Rom. 1, 4). Being the Firstborn of the dead, he gives life to ail (cf. 1, Cor. 15, 22): in him we were created new men (cf. Eph. 2, 10); through him ail creatures will be liberated from the slavery of corruption (cf. Rom. 8, 19-21). "There is no salvation in anyone else" (AcIs 4, 12).