Can you explain why when you commented on Colossians 1 and Hebrews 1 you referred to God, when the passage brings out the glory of the Son?

This text is from a transcript of a talk by David Gooding, entitled ‘God is on the Throne and in Control’.

Thank you for the question. When I was thinking about it and quoting those passages about creation, I was talking about God, and I thought to myself somebody will say, 'But wait a minute, Mr Preacher, you're misusing your text. The text is not about God, it's about Christ.'

Well, you're right, of course. But then I have to ask you, who was this Christ through whom, and by whom, and for whom, the worlds were made? Did he just begin to be when he was born in Bethlehem, or was he the Word that was with God in the very beginning, and was God? Well, of course, he was the Word who was with God. He was there at creation; it was through him that creation was made.

You say, 'But the Bible says that God created . . .; not the Word.' But John 1:1 says, 'The Word was with God, and the Word was God.' Abraham believed God. Tell me, in those days when Abraham believed God, did he know that God was a Trinity? There's no evidence that he did. The God that Abraham believed in, was he a Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit? Of course he was.

So I was talking in shorthand; but when I talked about God creating and then quoted the passage in Colossians that talks about Christ, I did it because I'm an incurable Christian in that sense, and I believe that Christ is God and he is the one through whom God created the universe.