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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:13 am Post subject: Why is Jesus called the Son of God?
Why is Jesus called the Son of God?
In a sense, we are all sons and daughters of God.
Recall the words of the apostle Paul in Athens when he introduced his gospel in a meeting of the Areopagus:
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God … is not far from each one of us. “For in him we live and move and have our being.” As some of your own poets have said, “We are his offspring.”
Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill. Acts 17:27-29.
The Jews also spoke of God as their Father.
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“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.” John 8:41.
The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, and in the desert. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place. Deuteronomy 1:30-31.
They have dealt corruptly with Him; they are no longer His children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation. Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not He your Father, who created you, who made you and established you? Deuteronomy 32:5-6.
For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name. Isaiah 63:16.
But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand. Isaiah 64:8.
The question should be, is Jesus a son in a way that you and I are not? The answer is yes. Here’s the essential meaning to the Sonship of Jesus Christ, which doesn’t apply to us:
In a royal family, a son is a person not in the servant class but in the family class. In the Bible, all created beings are in the servant class (Revelation 22:8-9, 19:10, 19:5-6). Technically, we are only sons by adoption (Romans 8:15, 8:23, 9:4, Galatians 4:5, Ephesians 1:5). Compare that with Jesus’ high standing.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:07 pm Post subject: ditto
kings havve inheirting sons, which is wut Jesus is like
Kings have peasents which he is the overseer of, lke a parent make sure there sons and daughters do good _________________ im o expert, but...
Here's what I think on the matter. I believe we are all made up of a spirit and a body. Our spirit is that breath of life that quickens us and gives us life. Our spiritual Father is God the Father. He created us spritually. Our physical father is our birth father. Christ is the only person who's spiritual and birth father are one and the same. God the Father fertilized Mary's egg through the Holy Ghost and brought forth the first and only BEGOTTEN (physically and spiritually) of God.
All of us are spiritually begotten of Him, hence we are sons and daughters of God; but John mentions the possibility of becoming sons and daughters of God. The New Testament makes much more sense when we understand the dualistic nature of many of the terms used in it. The "law" can be the Law of Moses or it can be the law of the Gospel. "Death" can be either spiritual death or physical death. "God" sometimes refers to Christ. We are spiritually "begotten" of Christ through the reception of the Gift of the Holy Ghost. This makes it possible for Him to take our sins upon Himself.
So when John says, "to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." He's making it clear that the "rebirth" that accompanies baptism and the Holy Ghost is a literal spiritual rebirth. Paul calls it adoption. "Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." Thus baptism represents death and resurrection to life in the spirit, as a spiritual Son of Christ, a joint-heir with Him of all the Father has.
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