What exactly does 'son of God' mean?

Answer 1

When Christians use the expression “the Son of God,” Moslems vehemently protest, “God has no son.” They quote the Koran, which says, at Suras 4:169; 6:101; 19:36: “God is only one God! Far be it from His glory that He should have a son!” “How, when He hath no consort, should He have a son?” “It beseemeth not God to beget a son.”

Of course, it would be foolish for anyone to limit the power of God by saying, ‘God CANNOT have a son.’ Truthfully, the Koran proclaims, “Verily, God is Almighty.” (2:19) He is the Creator of the universe, of heaven and earth and of the creatures in them. As God said to Abraham, that man of faith recognized by both Christians and Moslems, “Is anything too extraordinary for Jehovah?” A person who really is in submission to the Omnipotent God must agree with the prophet who said, “With God all things are possible.”—Gen. 18:14; Matt. 19:26.

Long before the creation of his human son Adam, God already had countless spirit sons, angels, all of whom got their life from the Father without sexual reproduction and birth. (Job 38:1-7) the Bible says Jehovah God has many sons, both angelic and human. (Gen. 6:4; Job 1:6; Luke 3:38) But there is an outstanding one we might properly call THE Son of God.

The PREEMINENT Son is the one of whom the Koran says God decreed “His name shall be, Messiah Jesus the son of Mary, illustrious in this world, and in the next.” (3:40) Yes, as a human he was the son of Mary, but who was the father responsible for Mary’s pregnancy, so that the child would be his son? Some stumble here by taking a carnal viewpoint. They imagine there was only one way for Mary to conceive and that was by having sexual relations, and ‘God is not a man to have sexual relations with a woman.’ But even the Koran teaches that Jesus was conceived by an act of the divine will.

Whose act resulted in the life of Adam, the son of God? God’s. Hence Sura 3:52 says: “Verily, Jesus is as Adam in the sight of God.” Neither of them had a human father. So, inasmuch as Adam was a son of God, so is Jesus. But Jesus did not first become a son of God when he was born of the chaste virgin Mary. He was foremost among the spirit sons of God who shouted for joy at the creation of the earth, as we read at Proverbs 8:22-31. (John 1:2, 3)

Answer 2

God is the Father. Jesus is the Son. Then there is the Holy Spirit. Though all these three are one.
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.
We call it The Trinity (Triune, meaning 3 in one.)

Answer 3

I believe that we are each a part of God, a perfect individuation of the whole being, made of the same matter.

Just as a drop of water from the ocean is comprised of the same matter as the ocean, it takes all the trillions of drops together to form the body of the ocean. So it is with us and God.

I believe that we (as was Jesus) are all the children of God. Together we are the sum (son) of God.

Answer 4

Jesus, God the father, and the holy spirit are three individual parts of God. Think of an apple. An apple has a skin, a white part under the skin, and the core but all three make up an apple.

Answer 5

Why do you ask???? Read the Bible for cryin out loud, or are afraid of hearing the TRUTH? Jesus IS the SON of God. God is the almighty father of the Son that died for ALL of OUR SINS!

Answer 6

Ugh, since they say God created all, We are all sons of him. But personally I don't believe in him. Or they could mean Jesus.

Answer 7

Jesus the Son of God???

Answer 8

Jesus the 'only begotten' son of God, and anyone who follows Jesus is an 'adopted' son of God.

Answer 9

1jo 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
1jo 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Ga 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Ga 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Ga 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Ro 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Ro 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Ro 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Ro 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Ro 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Ro 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Re 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Re 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Re 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Re 2:28 And I will give him the morning star.
Joh 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

Answer 10

A 'literal' Child of God