--as I suspected, you were on the way to saying that Jesus is the first thing created (light) and not the Creator himself. That's why I responded the way I did. That is not the teaching of Scripture (hence my quotation of John 1 and Col 1), as the church has always confessed.

Scripture is many books, but it is also one book; it has many authors, yet it has one Author. To pit (say, NT) scripture against (say, OT) scripture is to pit its Divine Author against himself.

I stand with Athanasius on this question, CONTRA MUNDUM, as it were.