=PluniaZ;14428618]The Bible always uses “begotten” to refer to a father having a son or daughter. See
biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=begot&qs_version=DRA This is why Jesus is called “begotten” by the Apostle John in John 1 and John 3 and 1 John 4. It means He is the Son of God the Father. Begotten is not the same as created. Created means God calls something into existence out of nothing. Begotten means the Father communicates his own Essence to the Son. As for why God the Father begets the Son, this goes back to my original post that God is Love. Love requires a relationship. The relationship between the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit shows us the true meaning of Love - each of them share their entire being with each other, without division or separation or keeping any part of their being for themselves alone. If only humans could learn to be so loving!
What is original of Son in eternal essence? There must be a prior existence to communicate to eternal essence. Where did it come from? Were there more than one God initially so Father united Godheads? Why did “love” not make Father to obey Son? But always Son obey Father?
The true meaning of Love! That should be assault Islam and abuse the greatest prophet of God!
You see with non philosophical figment it can be defended.
The Son was known. First as God’s Word - see Genesis 1 where God speaks and the world is created - i.e., the Word of God created the world. See also Proverbs 8, which I quoted before, where the Son is revealed as God’s Wisdom, which I’ll discuss below. And the Son of God is explicitly revealed in the Book of Wisdom Chapter 2:
The word of God is eternal. The wisdom of God is eternal. The life of God is eternal. All attributes of God is eternal. God to emphasize the omnipotent of Himself so God say He can do and create anything by just saying “be”. Be is a word but power of God create what is saying. But all the “word” in scripture does not refer to Jesus. Jesus is one of a conclusion of that order “be” . Jesus was born without a father and that is why Jesus call God as Father.
Proverb 8 is not about Jesus. That is comments of some Christians.
The Bible is explicit that the Son is equal to the Father. See John 5:18 - “Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath, but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.”
That is accusing of people to Jesus. Jesus never claimed such thing. The next of verse explain:
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Here Jesus said that He were doing what Father taught. Jesus always said Father had given all great authority to Jesus. Jesus never claimed such thing that He did anything by Himself. All miracles were gift of God. Also Jesus described Himself as Son of man(human).
27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
]In John 5:26, Jesus says, “For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given the Son also to have life in himself.” Only God has life in himself. Every living creature is dependent on God for its life. Yet Jesus says the Son “also” has life in himself. This is another illustration of how the Son is begotten - begotten means that the Father has given his own essence (life in himself) to the Son. Both the Father and the Son have the same essence - life in himself.
You should read from verse 24:
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
The way to have everlasting life is to believe in whom God sent and that was Jesus. Jesus call people to believe in Him.
God may give life to anyone. “in essence” is your interpretation. Jesus did not say that He had same essence with God. He said that He was Son of man.
In this passage, Jesus refers to himself as “him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world.” Clearly Jesus is not only a man, because he had existence before he was sent into the world (in John 8:58, Jesus says, “Before Abraham was, I am.”). On top of this, Jesus says, “the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” What created being could God be in, and also be in God?
Prophet Muhammad declared that before everything the light(essence) of your prophet(Muhammad’s) were created. These should be about souls.
The inside of heart is a mirror for manifesting of God. When someone make heart mirror light so only God act on that mirror.
The mirror of Jesus were very clear that only God act and will of God fulfil.
In John 5:19, Jesus says, “19 Then Jesus answered, and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner.” Jesus says that whatever the Father does, the Son also does. No created being can do whatever the Father does. Only God can do the things that God does.
Jesus said what God shown and given He did. Do that make Jesus God? Jesus expressed that Jesus never did anything which Father did not allowed. But you interpret that Jesus must be God! Very philosophically and a strained interpretation.
