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To: Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis
I don't know how to reconcile "begotten" with "not made"

FK, I believe the correct word is "generated." You have to understand that even the word "Son" and "Father" are anthropomorphisms which leads to human-like images in our minds, which we are to be ever so aware of lest we create God in our own image!

But such anthropomorphisms are needed for our way of expressing the indescribable God, keeping in mind that they are limited and imperfect renditions of Perfection.

The Father is often referred to as the Wisdom and the Son the Word. Wisdom generates or begets the Word, the process being unidirectional, or one-way. The Word possesses all the attributes of the Wisdom save for the begetting, and hence the "sonship" in anthropomorphic terms.

So, the Son is not "made" but is an expression of the Wisdom. I am sure you don't refer to your words or your character as being "made" either. Your words are part of you, and so are your thoughts and your character. What you make is not you, is not part of you, as one being, but something else, another being, but of you.

Thus, God's creation is not God, but of God. That's why the Bible says "My ways are not your ways and My thoughts are not your thoughts."

2,943 posted on 02/23/2006 3:46:28 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
So, the Son is not "made" but is an expression of the Wisdom. I am sure you don't refer to your words or your character as being "made" either. Your words are part of you, and so are your thoughts and your character. What you make is not you, is not part of you, as one being, but something else, another being, but of you.

OK, this helps me to understand. Thank you.

3,004 posted on 02/24/2006 7:04:11 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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