HOW and WHEN did Jesus became the Son of God?
by
Robert Schmid, November 2004
Considering that Lucifer and the angels can never become
true begotten/born Sons of God makes the
question: HOW and WHEN did Jesus became the Son of
God? one of the most important question we can ask.
Jesus came to show us the way by His example, through His
birth, life, suffering, death and resurrection (born again).
Satan does not want human beings to know and understand how
and when WE can become true begotten/born Son’s
of God and has confused the plain truth with, philosophy
and mythological teachings.
Lets consider and contrast four different teachings of HOW
and WHEN Jesus became the Son of God.
According to Roman Catholicism:
The first anathema of the Second Council of Constantinople
states: “If anyone does not confess that the Father
and the Son and the Holy Spirit are one nature or essence,
one power or authority, worshipped as a trinity
of the same essence, one deity in three hypostases or persons,
let him be anathema”
The second anathema states: “If anyone does not confess
that God the Word was twice begotten, the
first before all time from the Father, non-temporal and bodiless,
the other in the last days when he came down from the heavens
and was incarnate by the holy, glorious,
God bearer, ever virgin Mary, and born of her, let him be
anathema.”
In other words, according to Catholic Theology, God is a
trinity, and Jesus always existed
as the Son of God and came to earth via an incarnation
as a human being by being born of Mary 2000 years ago.
Here we can see how the trinity doctrine
works hand in hand with the incarnation doctrine.
An existing divine being, Jesus the Son of God, the second
person of the trinity, assuming human form by being born of
Mary. God, becoming man via an incarnation.
Since neither the trinity nor the incarnation
are Biblical concepts, and since by these doctrines God’s
deity CAN NOT be clearly perceived by the things that have
been made, these doctrines can only be believed
(because a doctrinal committee said so), but can not
be understood! They are Roman Catholic mystery doctrines.
According to Herbert W. Armstrong:
In Mystery of the Ages, HWA wrote: “Long before anything
else existed, there did exist two Supreme Beings, immortal,
who ALWAYS had existed”. “So here we find revealed
originally two Personages. One is God. And with God in that
prehistoric time was another Personage who also was God –
one who later was begotten and born as Jesus Christ.”
Although HWA denied the trinity, he retained from Catholicism
the pre-existence of Jesus, i.e., that Jesus
existed before He was born, and the incarnation
doctrine, i.e., that an existing God being became a human
being.
God was not a twinity of two co-equal beings
where one became begotten and born of the other. God created
one man Adam who begat Cain - a new
person, and God begat Jesus - a new person
(being).
Since neither existence before birth nor
the incarnation are Biblical concepts, and
since by these doctrines God’s deity CAN NOT be clearly
perceived by the things that have been made, these doctrines
can only be believed (because HWA said so),
but can not be understood! They are Roman
Catholic mystery doctrines.
According to Unitarians:
Unitarians deny the trinity, twinity and incarnation doctrines.
They believe that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God, the
Messiah, the Lord and Savior, but not God.
They believe that God created the seed of
which Jesus was born, making Jesus a created
being. They believe and teach that: “The crowning piece
of the plan of God was the creation of Jesus
Christ,….”.
Do not be deceived! Just because someone claims that Jesus
is the “Son of God”, does not make Him the “Son
of God.” If God created the seed from
which Jesus was born, then Jesus is a created being
and not a true son, because nature, i.e.,
the things God created, teaches us that a father DOES NOT
create his seed, the seed has always been with(in) the father.
The Word of God, which is the seed, was not
created, but has always been with(in) God so that what
is born of God is God. What else?
According to the Word of God, the Holy Bible:
Rom 1:19-20 tells us that we would know the deity
of God in the things that have been made,
so that we are without excuse.
God made Adam and Eve in His image and therefore
created with(in) them the potential to reproduce through procreation,
i.e., to have (physical) children. God then showed the way
through and by His first born Son how to reproduce through
procreation, i.e., to have (spiritual) children.
In the beginning God.
In the beginning the Word (of God), which
was always with(in) God and was God.
In the fullness of time the Word (of God)
BECAME flesh, BECAME the Son
(of God), BECAME Jesus.
Jesus was the (only so) begotten Son of
God (at conception) and was born as a human being through
Mary. He lived, suffered and died and was resurrected as the
(first) born Son of God. Jesus did not pre-exist
His birth as a second God being. “But when the fulness
of the time was come”, God BECAME
God the Father and the Word
of God BECAME the Son of God.
God was not and is not a trinity! God was not a twinity!
God did not create His Son! God is the ONE
God Family that began with the ONE God,
who in the fullness of time had His firstborn Son
- Jesus, and who is now in the process of adding,
as many as are led by the Spirit of God, to be(come) additional
Sons of God.
That is the plain truth and the simplicity of God
and His Son(s).
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