If you study on it, languages can be tricky things. Using the wrong word, or using the right word but being misunderstood, can cause a passel of confusion. Translating a language is challenging enough, but factor in different cultures from long ago and the situation becomes rather intricate.
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The English language has, I believed, devolved over the years. (Read some of the classic literature from the 18th and 19th centuries and you'll see that the eloquent prose from days gone by stands in stark contrast to much of what is available today.) This may be the case for other languages. Most of the New Testament is translated from Koine Greek, which was very precise. While I can say that I love my wife or love good food, the word love is the same but with different meanings. Koine Greek had four words to describe love.
Digging deeper, wording made a great difference. Sorry I can't find something to back this up (maybe someone can add a comment), but I heard a talk where the questions that Paul asks in 1 Cor. 12:29-30 use wording that indicate a negative answer: "Are all prophets?" The "no" is built in.
Christians know that Jesus is God the Son and he is the Creator. The word translated created in Colossians 1:16 is not as simple as we may think. It actually has a structure that indirectly refers back to Genesis and the created kinds. Yes, biblical creationists believe that the kinds remain in place, but we reject the fixity of species. Indeed, speciation is a part of God's engineering. We are told that our Creator upholds all things by his power — he did not tell his creatures to go into all the world and turn into something else.
The opening chapter of Genesis makes a significant and scientifically accurate statement concerning the fixity of created kinds. During the creation week, we repeatedly read the phrase that every type of living thing was created “after its kind.”While there is observable variation within plant and animal kinds, we don’t see one fundamental kind evolving into another, nor do we see any evidence of transitional forms in the fossil record. Interestingly, we see the Creator’s upholding of fundamental, creation-based principles reaffirmed in the Greek text of the New Testament.
To finish reading, see "New Testament Upholds Created Kind Stasis".