Paul's letters tell us about the problem of heresies during the expansion of the early Church in the pagan world, Paul is the missionary par excellence and by the weight of his writings he is perhaps the true founder of the Christian faith.
Paul in the epistle to the Colossians writes to a very dear disciple to warn the community about the problem of the teaching of the error. Some supposed teachers taught that Jesus was an angel or a simple spiritual messenger, for which the apostle affirms at the beginning of the epistle with a hymn, the divinity of Christ, Jesus is perfect, eternal, and the third person of the Holy Trinity, he is the beginning and the end of all creation (Revelations 1:8):
"The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or power or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together" Colossians 1:15-17.
Just as the Church, which is the communion of brothers, is a single spiritual body, Jesus is the head of that body; our Lord Jesus is the model of the new man and also the new Adam and through him the promise of eternal life (John 17:3) and the resurrection of the dead are possible:
"And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or thing in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross" Colossians 1:18-20.
Like Paul, all adult Christians are missionaries of the Kingdom of Jesus.
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