Posted on 08/15/2015 1:47:29 PM PDT by verga
Most of us who teach in the field of Christian Origins get asked from time to time by students or in public lectures, “Professor, Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God?”
Scholars are aware of the rich and diverse ways in which the term “Son of God” is used in the Hebrew Bible, in subsequent Jewish literature, and in the New Testament writings themselves, not to mention various non-Jewish texts (including inscriptions and coins) of the Greco-Roman period. Most of us who teach in the field of Christian Origins get asked from time to time by students or in public lectures, “Professor, do you believe Jesus was X.” Sometimes X is “Messiah,” other times it is “Divine,” but in my experience, most often, the question is “Do you believe that Jesus was the Son of God.” In good Socratic fashion one is tempted to reply, “Well what do you mean by the term ‘Son of God,’ and such a counter question is certainly more than subterfuge. Here is a listing of most of the complex ways in which that term is used in the Christian Bible and other related traditions:
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But Jesus is the only BEGOTTEN Son of God...
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I believe Amen
Exactly what I wrote. He is the Son of God, begotten not made, of one essence with the Father and possessed of two natures being both Divine and human.
Jesus IS God.
God said so in Isaiah 43:10
I read chapters 41-43 to grasp the context. The sentence before is crucial to understanding. In 42:1 He talks about His servant, “My chosen one in whom My soul delights.” Continuing through to 43 God is still talking about His servant and says in verse 10:
“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,
And My servant whom I have chosen,
In order that you may know and believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
And there will be none after Me.”
Repeat...”And understand that I am He.” New American Standard Version.
“I will tell of the decree:
The LORD said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.”—Psalm 2
“To which of the angels did God ever say,
“You are my Son,
today I have begotten you”?
Or again,
“I will be to him a father,
and he shall be to me a son”?—Hebrews 1
Would you believe that Jesus was Jewish, on his mother’s side?
The fact that it seems mysterious or even impossible is the essence of the Incarnation. If God did not become one of us, the whole thing kind of becomes an academic idea. What we really want is to be united—with one another and with God. Only Jesus gives us that ultimate gift, and only if He is God.
John had it down perfectly. I always think his version of the Good News is different and more spiritual because he was younger than the others and the words of the Savior went deeper, although of course the others have their special take on it as well.
Matthew caught the essence of the big change in how we were to think about things: the fundamental news about how we were to be and become. Revolutionary. John was on a different trip. It’s all the same, though.
So, yes.
He is God and He is the Son of God, born of the Holy Spirit, which is God.
are they ever going to use Bishop Sheen’s real first name?
Yes. Absolutely.
That’s one of my favorite books. Love to read it during Lent.
,,,,,, Jesus is at the right hand of God ,,,, got it ???
Evan Satan, ya’, he was a guy who worked at the gas station...always thought he had a weird last name...
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The Holy Trinity — Triune God.
Jesus IS, not “was”.
Yes I most certainly do believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
John 1:1 and John 8:58-59.
Yes. Jesus is God, yet he calls Himself the “Son of Man”.
The First Prediction of the Passion. 31i He began to teach them that the Son of Man* must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. 32He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”
How do you prove it? Jesus died on the Cross for our sins and was resurrected and is with us in the Eucharist.
How do we know? We spend time with Jesus everyday, we get to know Him and do our best to show our Love for Him and our neighbor and accept His love.
The alternative is to spend eternity without HIM.
No one can read the book of John without clearly seeing that Jesus, and this whole book, clearly declare his being the “only begotten” Son of God, and His unique relationship with his Heavenly Father is a major topic of Jesus own words in this book.
Clearly stated throughout the NT, but especially in the gospel of John.
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