Why do some say that Jesus (pbuh) is God's "begotten" son? What exactly does that mean?

Question

The English translation of the Holy Qur'an (Surah 112) says:

1. Say (O Muhammad): "He is Allah (the) One.
2. Allah the Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need.
3. He begets not, nor was He begotten.
4. And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him.

To answer Fuzzy's question, "pbuh" stands for "peace be upon him".

Answer 1

the Bible predates the koran by over 600 years, read the bible and it clearly makes Jesus the son of God. To "beget" means to "come forth" , for example, rays "come forth" from the sun, in the same way Jesus has always "come forth" from God the father. Everything was created for and through jesus Christ, Jesus is the "agent" in which God used to create everything. Jesus is co-eternal and has always been begotten from God the father.


"For there are three that bear testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one" John 5:7

"Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony of God in them. Those who don't believe God have made God a liar. They haven't believed the testimony that God has given about his Son." I john 5:10

Answer 2

What does 'pbuh' mean? Ignoring that and trying to answer the English question: (please ask me if you have questions to the following)

The Bible states that God the Almighty, Jehovah, (KJV) is the only true God. Even Jesus referred to him as 'my God' and told Satan that He is the one we should worship.

Jesus is not the Almighty, nor is he part of God, neither is he co-equal to God. However, the Bible states that Jesus is the firstborn son of God. He is a created being also named the Word and God's Amen.

He is 'only begotten' in the sense that he is the only being directly created by God. All other things, all the angels, the universe, men, animals--everything else, God created by means of and for the heavenly Jesus who now is also named Jesus Christ or Christ Jesus.

Answer 3

To be begotten means that he was not created. Jesus existed as the Word of God from all eternity. He is co-equal to the Father yet also worships him as God.

The Bible does pre-exist Islam -- and therefore the Qur'An by 600 years. It does seem unlikely that God should have a son -- but you are thinking in terms of either a created being or adoption (from the heresy of adoptionism). It is WE who are adopted by the Father in and through Jesus. Like God, Jesus has no beginning and no end. However, his earthly life DID have a beginning and an end.

God IS one as the Qur'An says. That oneness makes itself manifest in three different persons -- yet all are equal.

Answer 4

Jesus was begotten that means He was not made like Adam was. He was born of a woman. He was conceived in her womb. This is what the word begotten means. He could not be the mediator between heaven and earth if he were not truly human and in the line of Adam and Eve. Even though He was born of a woman who was under the law of sin, He himself was without sin. And when He was in his mother, He took away her original sin as well. So we have Jesus as the new Adam and Mary as the new Eve. And the world is reconciled to God through the free-will obedience of Mary and the person of Jesus.

Answer 5

That is why it's wrong to say that Allah and God are the same. The koran opposes the truth in the bible. Jesus didn't come to earth as God incarnate according to the koran, although in fact Jesus is the only begotten son of God, born of a virgin.

Answer 6

God created Jesus in the womb of a virgin, one of the signs of the Messiah is the birth by a virgin.

God created Jesus in the womb. Why wouldnt God be his father? Is God so weak he can not do such a thing?

Jesus was also a vessel through whom the Lord God inhabited (God being the Holy Spirit). Jesus was a Prophet and Son of God. Although Jesus never said he was God - however - he did acknowledge that he is the Son of God, just as God said through a prophet in the Old Testament.

Answer 7

Beget means to cause to come into existence.

"For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son,that whoever believes in Him shall not die,but have eternal life"-John 3:16
The Bible predates the Koran by centuries,so I'll be going with my Bible over the Koran.

Answer 8

It says in the bible that Jesus is God's only begotten son
begotten has one meaning: (of offspring) generated by procreation. This just means that Jesus was God only son

Answer 9

Main Entry: be·get
Pronunciation: bi-'get, bE-
Function: transitive verb

Inflected Form(s): be·got /-'gät /; also be·gat /-'gat/; be·got·ten /-'gä-t&n /; or -got; -get·ting

Etymology: Middle English begeten, alteration of beyeten, from Old English bigietan -- more at GET

1 : to procreate as the father : SIRE

Jesus was the only thing that God created directly. Everything else was done through Jesus. (Colossians 1:15,16)

Answer 10

Begotten = Created

It means that Jehovah God himself created Jesus Christ with his bare hands and he created NOTHING ELSE. Christ in his prexistance in Heaven created EVERYTHING ELSE. He created the angels (including Satan), the earth and man, etc. That is why it is so important that it was Christ himself that died. He was the only thing God created in this Universe and outside, and he died, actually stopped existing, just for us.

What a kindness on God's part to even let him. To allow the ONLY THING he created to die.