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1 | Jehovah's Witness Question | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 124903 | ||
VictorA, 1) How would you define angel? The literal definition is a messenger. 2) How would you define archangel? The literal definition is a lead- or head- messenger. 3) Is Jesus the "only begotten god" of Jehovah as John 1:18 says? "The title "Son of God" signifies the unique and eternal relationship of Jesus Christ to God his Father: he is the only Son of the Father (cf. Jn 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18); he is God himself (cf. Jn 1:1). To be a Christian, one must believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God (cf. Acts 8:37; 1 Jn 2:23). "Following this apostolic tradition, the Church confessed at the first ecumenical council at Nicaea (325) that the Son is "consubstantial" with the Father, that is, one only God with him. The second ecumenical council, held at Constantinople in 381, kept this expression in its formulation of the Nicene Creed and confessed "the only-begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father". 4) Is Jesus the "only begotten son" of Jehovah? He is the only begotten Son of god. See answer to number 3. 5) How many heavenly sons does Jehovah God have? All believers and the unfallen angelic host. "The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature":"For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God." ..."The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods." 6) Was Satan a son of God before he rebelled? Yes, but unlike Jesus, a created rather than begotten son of God. Now here is my question for you. Does the passage below describing the Arians sound like the Jehovah Witnesses to you? "From apostolic times the Christian faith has insisted on the true incarnation of God's Son "come in the flesh".But already in the third century, the Church in a council at Antioch had to affirm against Paul of Samosata that Jesus Christ is Son of God by nature and not by adoption. The first ecumenical council of Nicaea in 325 confessed in its Creed that the Son of God is "begotten, not made, of the same substance (homoousios) as the Father", and condemned Arius, who had affirmed that the Son of God "came to be from things that were not" and that he was "from another substance" than that of the Father." Thank you Victor. Emmaus |
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2 | Jehovah's Witness Question | Bible general Archive 2 | victorA | 124934 | ||
Hello Emmaus, Thank you for responding to me. Please explain "begotten not made" to me a bit more if you can before I can comment on your question to me. |
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3 | Jehovah's Witness Question | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 124979 | ||
"Thank you for responding to me. Please explain "begotten not made" to me a bit more if you can before I can comment on your question to me." VictorA, In the context of the Trinity, the term begotten is not quite the same as a man begets since men need women and a man does not beget within himself. In the Creed it means that the Son was always with the Father as the Word or Logos, consubstnace, "one in Being" with the Father." So te Son is uncreated and eternal, always existing with the Father and the Holy Spirit. After this evening I wll be away for a while and may not be able to respond. Emmaus |
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