Colossians 1:16, "all [other] things" and the New World Translation

From https://www.gotquestions.org/New-World-Translation.html
"In Colossians 1:16, the NWT inserts the word 'other' despite its being completely absent from the original Greek text. It does this to give the view that 'all other things' were created by Christ, instead of what the text says, 'all things were created by Christ.'"

Reply: Many Bibles read Colossians 1:16, as it is in the NASB, "BY Him all things were created" leading the reader to conclude the Jesus is the active creator of all things. The problem is that all the verbs pertaining to Christ as creating here are passive, not active. This passivity is just what we would expect from someone who was a Master Worker, besides Jehovah, helping him create, as the Bible says at Proverbs 8:22-30.
Hence, other Bibles translate:
"He is a likeness of the unseen God, born before any creature, for it was through him that everything was created." Smith and Goodspeed's An American Translation
"Of all creation, he was first to be produced, in fact it was he that formed all other things...all came into existance as a result of him and by means of him." 21st Century NT
"for it was through Him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him." Williams New Testament
"And through him were created all things that are in heaven" Lamsa NT

There is also a way to look at Col 1 from another angle, where the insertion of the word "other" actually EXCLUDES Christ from the creative process in these Scriptures. The classic New World Translation Reference Edition and the Kingdom Interlinear Translation has the word "other" in brackets thereby indicating it is not in the Greek text.

The NIV Bible has been criticized for adding the word "other" at 1Cor 6:18, as this changes the meaning and adds the translators theology on the matter.

Now Bibles like the RSV add the word "other" about 100 times, perhaps with a change of meaning as well.

Let us take a look at 1 Corinthians 6:18: "Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body." ASV
The RSV, NIV, NJB, Smith & Goodspeed have "Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body."

Consider Luther's translation of Romans 3:28 where he adds the word "alone" to the word "faith." The NIV Study Bible says here, "When Luther translated this passage, he added the word 'alone,' which, though not in the Greek, accurately reflects the meaning." You cannot condemn one version, and then have your people praise another for doing exactly the same thing. You cannot have it both ways.
Why don't critics of the New World Translation speak the same way about the NIV, NKJV, NET Bible, etc. regarding the insertion of the word "over" in Col. 1:15?. "The firstborn 'over' all creation". Is the word "over" in the Greek text here? None of my Interlinear Bibles say "over" at this text. Doesn't that totally change the meaning of the text? Is anyone complaining about that? No!

Another website states: Please note that this passage does not say Jesus was the "first created," but that He was the "first-born." The Bible doesn't use the Greek word for "first created (protoktizo), but firstborn (prototokos) of all creation.

Reply: Why on earth would Paul write "the first-created of creation" which would be a silly redundancy, a tautology.

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