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Paul now talks about Christ’s supremacy in terms of the church. Christ is the head of the church. If ever anything is put as the prime purpose of the church other than following Christ, then we are going in the wrong direction. Christ is the firstborn of the resurrection of the dead. His resurrection was different than that of Lazarus. Lazarus came back as a mortal man, destined to die again. Jesus was raised with a resurrection body never to die again, and we too will rise immortal. Christ has supremacy in all things.
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One of the many trinitarian errors that go around is modalism, essentially seeing God as existing in three modes. The truth is that there is one God who eternally exists as three persons. The three persons are distinct, but are all equally God. Here we see that all the fulness of God dwells in Christ. He is not less than God, He has not got a “bit of Godness” in Him, He is fully God. In the Colossian context this means that there was no need whatsoever to look to anything else to make things complete. Everything that is needed is found in Christ, and God has said that is the way it is. So if God says all His fullness dwells in Christ, and someone then pipes up that they think we need to add something in order to get the full picture, then such a person is being extremely presumptuous.
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