The word "thing(s)" has been added in Psalm 8:6; John 1:3; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 15:27; Ephesians 1:22; Colossians 1:16-20; Hebrews 2:8-10, and many, many other verses throughout the Bible. Forms of the Hebrew word often transliterated as KOL (Strong's Hebrew #S 3605,3606) and forms of the Greek word often transliterated as PAS (Strong's Greek #3956) rarely, if ever, in the Bible refer to absolutely everything in the universe (which actually would include God Himself), or even every created thing in the universe, although translators evidently add the word "things" evidently with the latter thought in mind. It is also the same with the Hebrew and Greek negative.
For instance in Hebrews 2:8, without adding the word "thing(s)", we read:
"You have put all in subjection under his feet."
For in that he subjected all to him, he left not one that is not subject to him. But now we don't see all subjected to him, yet.
This is indirectly quoting Psalm 8:6, which speaks of all that God has subjected to man. Hebrews 2:8, however, comments that God had not left one that was not subjected to man. In saying that God had not left one that was not subjected to man, does the scripture mean that the whole universe has been made subject to man? Obviously not! Psalm 8:7,8 briefly expresses what is included in "all" that was subjected to man:
All sheep and oxen, Yes, and the animals of the field, The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, And whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
In other the all sentient living things on earth was subjected to man. Due to man's disobedience, however, we do not yet see all subjected to man. It is delayed until the ages to come.
In John 1:3, we find similar usage of forms of "pas" as in Hebrews 2:8. God made all through the Logos, and none were made without the Logos. Is the "all" here referring to absolutely every created thing in the universe? Obviously not. John 1:10 identifies what is being referring to as the world (KOSMOS) into which the Logos, the world that did not recognize the Logos. This is the same world (KOSMOS) that sin entered into through one man. (Romans 5:12-19) Jesus' body of flesh was specially prepared by his God (Hebrews 10:5), so that he, while in the days of his flesh (Hebrews 5:7), was not of this world condemned through Adam. Likewise, the new creature in Christ is begotten again apart from this world condemned through Adam, and is therefore not of this condemned world.
But the point is that "the beginning" and "all" in John 1:1-3 is referring, not to the creation of universe, but to the creation of the world of mankind, which God did through his firstborn creature. The invisible sons of God were already in existence at the beginning of the world that was made through the Logos. -- Job 38:4-7.
Likewise, in Colossians 1:16, all that God made through the firstborn son is not in reference to absolutely every created "thing", but rather to the creation of living one who are given dominion or a realm, the invisible sons of God in the heavens and the visible creation of man on the earth.
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