The classical description of
the Father begetting the Son before all worlds can also describe the way in which God, in the Whiteheadian conceptuality, creates himself by envisaging all the pure forms as constituting the metaphysical order God and the world exemplify.
The Father begets the Son from eternity, the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, etc..
From eternity
the Father begets the Son — that is, offers his life, all that he is and has, to the Son.
God as
Father begets Jesus Christ the Son.
The challenge was how to explain this from - ness without violating the same - ness, which they did by declaring that the Son was begotten — but not in the way that human
fathers beget or generate their earthly children.
The nontemporal act whereby
the Father begets the Son «before all worlds» can also be conceived as the act whereby God creates himself.
Lay it down that had not Sir Thomas Browne lived, Emerson would not have mystified — I will answer, that had not Old Zack's
father begot him, old Zack would never have been the hero of Palo Alto.
Not exact matches
Once the power of the love of our
father is known through John 3:16 «For God so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.»
Thus the
Father «
begets» the Son, the Divine Word, the Wisdom of the
Father.
The creed says he was «eternally
begotten of the
father».
The nakedness of thy
father's wife's daughter,
begotten of thy
father, she [is] thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
We are all sons and daughters of God, but only Christ is the «only
begotten of the
Father in the flesh.»
Of course, on this Christian understanding human beings are not
begotten in the absolute sense that the Son is said to be
begotten of the
Father.
And the language in which they did this (in the fourth - century Nicene Creed, one of the two most important creeds that antedate the division of the church in the West at the Reformation) is language which describes the Son of the
Father as «
begotten, not made.»
«Christ was
begotten by an Immortal
Father in the same way that mortal men are
begotten by mortal
fathers,» (Mormon Doctrine, by Bruce McConkie, 1966, p. 547).
The reason being is they are simply mouthpiece for our Heavenly
Father and his only
Begotten Son Jesus Christ for the people here on earth.
Mormons believe that Jesus is the Only
Begotten of the
Father and is God.
(John 1:18) God's «only -
begotten Son» Jesus Christ (John 3:16) explained details of his
Father, Jehovah God, when he walked the earth.
But after centuries of rigorous interpretation and debate, the church concluded that Jesus was «God from God, Light from Light, very God from Very God,
begotten not made, of one being with the
Father through whom all things were made.»
Now, lo, if he
beget a son, that seeth all his
father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth, and doeth not such like... he shall not die for the iniquity of his
father, he shall surely live...
God the
Father so loved us that he gave his only
begotten son as a sacrifice for our sins.
They also deny the virgin birth, since their materialism leads them to speculate that Jesus is literally
begotten by the immortal
Father rather than conceived by the Holy Spirit.
Stephen Webb writes that Mormons «deny the virgin birth, since their materialism leads them to speculate that Jesus is literally
begotten by the immortal
Father rather than conceived by the Holy Spirit.»
Does the Mormon position» that Jesus was
begotten by an immortal (but not immaterial)
father» contradict the ancient Christian doctrine that Jesus had no natural
father?
Most
fathers have had the last of their children by the time they are 40 years old, a few have had the last of their children by the time they are about 50 years old, and very few
beget any children after they are 50 years old.
When God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, it was not just to see if Abraham was faithful enough to follow his commandment, it was also symbolic of the sacrifice God himself would make in sacrifice his beloved and
begotten son, but unlike Abraham who was spared at the last moment from carrying through with the sacrifice of his son, God the
father actually carried through with the sacrifice and although it wasn't permanent it still did not mean that there was no anguish, it doesn't matter how brief it was, if it was enough for divine and eternal beings to have to go through such heartache, all of which for our lowly sakes, in my view that is quite significant and I believe that such suffering is actually beyond mine or anyone else's comprehension.
«I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only
Begotten, begotten of the Father before who ages... Who for us men and our salvation came down from Heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man..
Begotten,
begotten of the Father before who ages... Who for us men and our salvation came down from Heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man..
begotten of the
Father before who ages... Who for us men and our salvation came down from Heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man...»
In his godhead
begotten of the
Father without beginning before all time; in his manhood born of Mary, in the fullness of time, in a united body.
Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (
Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating /
fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only
begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...
1) Christ is the only
begotten on the
Father, what exactly does that mean?
Christ Jesus, who is eternally
begotten of the
Father, is
begotten in time of the Holy Spirit, and takes on our own flesh and blood «not out of human stock, or urge of the flesh, or will of man, but of God» (Jn 1, 13).
This majestic passage comes to a climax in the fourteenth verse, «And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only
begotten from the
Father), full of grace and truth.»
This oneness is still emphasisedwhen the Creed goes on to show how it is a real Person, a real Divine Person, who is
begotten by the Person of the
Father: «God from God, light from light, true God from true God,
begotten not made.»
You have been
begotten by your
father and your mother; therefore in you the mating of two human beings — a species - act of human being — has produced the human being.
He partook of flesh and blood - was
begotten of his
Father, as we were of our
fathers.»
He partook of flesh and blood — was
begotten of his
Father, as we were of our
fathers.»
Biblical doctrine = God exists eternally as
Father, Son and Spirit, and Jesus is the eternally
begotten Word of the
Father, very God.
John 1:14 «14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only
begotten from the
Father, full of grace and truth.»
In other words, the truest indication of the
Father's «love» for the world must be that He abandoned His only
begotten Son at the Cross to give eternal life to whoever believes in Him (John 3:16).
Begotten not made, consubstantial to the
Father, by whom all things were made.
«To
beget is to become the
father of: to create is to make,» Lewis explained.
John 1:18 KJV No man hath seen God at any time; the only
begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the
Father, he hath declared him.
Leo himself refers to Jesus as the «only -
begotten Word of God», placing himself directly in the line of those
Fathers, such as Polycarp and Irenaeus, who received the apostolic teaching of St John.
The incarnate Son of God is light from light, true God from true God,
begotten not made, and of one substance with the
Father.
(Re 3:14) If he failed, he would reproach his
Father's name as none other could.In selecting his only -
begotten Son, Jehovah, of course, was not «laying his hands hastily upon him,» with the risk of being «a sharer in possible sins,» for Jesus was no novice likely to get «puffed up with pride and fall into the judgment passed upon the Devil.»
John 1:14 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.
As such it corresponds to the Logos as identical with the Son who is «
begotten of the
Father before all worlds.»
The Holy Ghost is of the
Father and the Son: neither made, nor created, nor
begotten, but proceeding....
The Son is of the
Father alone: not made, nor created, but
begotten.
The
Father is made of none: neither created, nor
begotten.