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Man, the Begotten Jesus, and the Divine Word
Man is made in the image of God...
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Ge 1:27
The Begotten Jesus is the image of God...
- "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." 1Ti 2:5
- Jesus the man is the express image of God... 2 Cor:4:4, Heb 1:3.
- Jesus the man is the only begotten of the eternal God... John 1:14
- Jesus the Son of God is the Word made flesh... John 1:14
- Jesus the Son of God is also made... the product of the Word made flesh!
- Jesus the Son of God is a DUAL-NATURED divine/human BEING, the eternally divine Word who took upon himself full humanity at a specific point in time, i.e. at the point when the eternal Word was made flesh!
The eternal Word was God...
- "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
- The divine Word is the ONE-NATURED divine Being, eternally existing, not begotten in any sense. The Son is divinely begotten, He is not eternally begotten.
- That which is eternal cannot be begotten in any sense; and that which is begotten cannot be eternal in any sense, except through some very strange and bizarre cartwheeling and somersaulting.
- The Word is not the Son, and the Son is not the Word; the Son is the Word made flesh!
- The Son's divinity has no beginning. His humanity has a definite beginning. The Son was begotten at a specific point in time, that is, when the Word was made flesh by the divine power!
- "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."
These things are quite plain... Jesus the Christ is the begotten Son of the eternal God at a specific point in time. Jesus the Christ is NOT the eternal Son of God. The Word is eternal, not the Son.
"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
Jesus did declare, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am."
It is popular to take this passage to prove that Jesus claims eternal sonship. That's a fable. The Jews were ignorant, and denied His divine nature, and that was the point of Jesus' words. The eternal divine Word, before it was made flesh, was indeed before Abraham. His humanity, the man Jesus was indeed "not yet fifty years old." Jesus the man was begotten of God, divinely begotten as the only begotten of the Father, and not of man.
"Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." Luke 1:34-35.
Here a simple and plain declaration concerning how Jesus, the Son of God was begotten, how the eternal Word was made flesh.
How a man can read these Scriptures and not see that simple truth is beyond me. A prejudiced mind is hard for the light to enter!
Biblical Distinction is the Essence of Sound Theology.
