So in AD = 0, father
god begat son jesus god (Romans had sons of god) but was actually god (though had a beginning and end) because jesus was I AM before i.e. god himself.
Than in AD = 0,
god begat son jesus but was actually god (though had a beginning and end) because jesus was I AM before i.e. god himself.
God begat Jesus, end of story.
As the pious above chant of
the God begotten of Light, the unfaithful faithful call out in ragged whispers their own stories of Inquisitions, of lost political battles at important councils of faith, of unjust executions in the name of the Christ and of excommunications to shore up power.
God begets us anew and the first glimmer of life in the newborn child is faith (Piper, Five Points, 35).
According to Christian tradition,
God begets a son who is somehow also Him but not Him to atone for Original Sin.
Not exact matches
He that believeth shall be saved, he that believeth not is condemned already because he has not believed on the name of the only
begotten Son of
God.
u see
God loves us soo much that he gave his only
begotten son so that whoever beleives in me would not perish but have everlasting life..
Death has been overcome by Christ's sacrifice on Calvary, and those who put their trust in Him will live again, «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 (John 3:16).
I thought that
God sent his only
begotten son to die for your sins.
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.»
Regardless of some pagan uses in the past, Easter today is the day to remember and be thankful for a
God who sent is only
begotten son, who was without transgression, to die for our sins and then be raised from the dead that all who believe in Him may have eternal life.
Finally, read the commentary of the Apostle John on the discussion between Jesus and Niccodemus, «For
God so loved the world, that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should never perrish, but have eternal life,» and then you will see and understand what
God's love looks like.
Judas acted against
God's only -
begotten Son.
Sin against
God and nature continues to
beget misery upon the human family until we each make a concerted effort to lead lives worthy of a human being made in the image and likeness of their Creator.
@Vic, Maybe you can help explain this to me, why does everyone make a big deal about Jesus being «
God's» «only
begotten son»?
You see Kerry, «For
God so LOVED the world that He gave His only
begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.»
For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, shall not perish but have everlasting life!
The most well known verse is John 3:16, «For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.»
«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty
God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to
beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»
Then
God made the «Ultimate Provision» for our redemption and gave His only
begotten Son in the «Ultimate Sacrifice,» that is Sufficient.
If
God is not concerned with humanity, why did He send His only
begotten Son to die for our sins?
We are all sons and daughters of
God, but only Christ is the «only
begotten of the Father in the flesh.»
For
God so loved the world, that He gave us His only
begotten son, that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Regarding your second fold,
God Himself is unchanging; it is out of His Grace that He kept renewing His Covenants with man who could not keep and broke them until He (
God) made the «Ultimate Provision» for our redemption by the «Ultimate Sacrifice» of His only
begotten Son, the «Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ,» the «New Covenant,» the «Good News» — Salvation, hence, the method of redemption is what changed.
We believe that Jesus is the only
begotten son of
God and we also believe that Jesus was the
God of the Old Testament.
The Biblical accounts of
God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating with
God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only
begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.»
They are made - but made by
God through human
begetting.
Mormons believe that Jesus is the Only
Begotten of the Father and is
God.
For your information Mormons do believe that Jesus Christ is the only
begotten son of
God.
Thanks be unto
God for His wonderful gift: Jesus Christ, the only
begotten Son of
God is the object of our faith; the only faith that saves is faith in Him.
For the unshakeable truth of all of history is that «
God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.»
Oliver O'Donovan has noted that this distinction between making and
begetting, crucial for Christians» understanding of
God, carries considerable moral significance.
(John 3:18) He who believes on Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only -
begotten Son of
God.
(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.
the life of his only son, Jesus ---- I wonder why an omnipotent
God would only be able to
beget 1 son?
Jesus Christ is
God's only
begotten Son.
(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.
Thus, the Bible establishes that the true
God is Jehovah, his «only -
begotten Son» is Jesus Christ (John 3:16), and that the holy spirit is Jehovah's active force.
I love JESUS
Gods only
begotten son!
Mormons worship Jesus Christ as the Savior and Redeemder of the world, the only
begotten Son of
God, and the only being capable of performing the necessary sacrifice that enables us to be forgiven when we repent.
19:35 - It does not befit
God that He
begets a son, be He glorified.
And yes, we do believe that Jesus Christ is the only
begotten Son of
God, which sounds like the definition of a Christian faith to me.
It is not the result of the free will of creatures, as is normally the case with the
begetting of a human person, but the result of
God's own Will, His free decision to become one of us.
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.»
In Babylonian myth the saltwater goddess (Tiamat) mated with the freshwater
god (Apsu) and
begat the
gods and goddesses of silt and the horizon, which in turn
begat heaven (Anu), who
begat the earth (Enki).
«It does not befit
God that He
begets a son, be He glorified.
So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to
beget offspring and bring them up to worship
God.
Parents do not simply
beget children, but must also see to their formation in love and truth and knowledge of
God.