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in talking to learned Christians, not a single one has opened his mouth to hazard an explanation of the phrase "begotten not made". It had to be an American who dared to explain. He said: "It means, sired by God." "What!" I exploded: "Sired by God?" "No, no!" he said, "I am only trying to explain the meaning, I do not believe that God really sired a son."

2007-04-27 20:43:09 · 5 answers · asked by Punter 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

5 answers

Very few can answer you properly.

For the official version maybe only Iamacatholic2 has the skill to answer this clearly.

For the real version, you probably need to read
The Supreme Bible of God to get the full picture:
see: http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/jesus_family/jesus_family_0010.htm

2007-04-27 20:49:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

God was begotten means it was by his own "isness" That he was desired to exist. This means he wasn't made by human hands but by his own will to exist. Through him the universe was made. The resemblence between God Son of God and Holy spirit is this: God is one who came to earth for our sins. The term Son does not mean his actual son as in being born. The term son means to inherit, to inherit the earth and all the people who believe in him. Son of God is still one person and the holy spirit is also God. Think of it as water. Chunks of ice is God, water is Jesus Christ, and vapor is the holy spirit. It essence is still water, but the forms are different; God's mind is infinite and ours are finite we can not understand his being or actions like a child can't understand why his parents hit him and say they love him. We are ignorant when it comes to the knowledge of Yahweh.

2007-04-27 20:54:47 · answer #2 · answered by bboyballer112 2 · 1 0

No one seems to know exactly what God looks like. What color do you think His eyes are? Does He have a big nose? See what I mean? If you study the History of Civilization you will learn that for thousands of years during the times of Egyptian Culture, God was considered to be a woman. It was religion who changed God into a man. So religion has changed God into what ever they like. If you want to know what God looks like, don't ask religion because you will get so many different answers.

2007-04-27 21:03:05 · answer #3 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 0 1

Adam was created...made.
Eve was created from Adam.
Jesus was created LONG BEFORE he was SENT to earth.
(Proverbs 8:22-31) “Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago. 23 From time indefinite I was installed, from the start, from times earlier than the earth. 24 When there were no watery deeps I was brought forth as with labor pains, when there were no springs heavily charged with water. 25 Before the mountains themselves had been settled down, ahead of the hills, I was brought forth as with labor pains, 26 when as yet he had not made the earth and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land. 27 When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, 28 when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong, 29 when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, 30 then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, 31 being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men.

Jesus was first created in heaven, then "begotten" to enable him to arrive on the earth.
Jesus opf course, is NOT God himself, but his son.
And it was God who SENT Jesus to us to sacrifice his life and buy back for us the right to again live without death. Something that Adam lost for us.
(Genesis 2:16-17) And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. 17 But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”

So God's plan before Adam disobeyed was to be without death, for Adam to live forever.
We have suffered for this disobedience ever since.
But this will not go on forever. We have been promised a life on earth without death.
Revelation 21;4 and Psalms 37; 9,11

p.s. There is no such thing as the Holy Ghost. This implies a personage.
It is more correctly The Holy Spirit, and is God's active force, that God uses much as we use electricity. A force or power, but certainly not a 'person', let alone be equal to God.

2007-04-27 22:10:30 · answer #4 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0 1

In John 3:16 we find one of these references mentioned about Jesus being the "Only Begotten, Son of God."
There are two main words in the Greek language that are addressed to the "Begotten." They are: "'Monogenes and Ginomai. Ginomai is related to Genos as in genealogy, species,family, kindred. Monogenes the only one of the family. Only John uses Monogenes to describe the relation of Jesus to God the Father, presenting Him as the unique One, the only One (Monos) of the family (Genos), in the discussion of the relationship of the Son to the Father (John 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18; 1John 4:9). Jesus is never called "Teknon" which means child. Jesus called God His very own Father (Idion). He was not a father to Him as He is to us (cf. John 20:17). He never spoke of God as the common Father of Himself and of the believers. The term Monogenes also occurs in Hebrews 11:17. The Genos from which Genes in Monogenes is derived means race, stock, family, and Geno comes from ginomai, become, as in John 1:14, '...and the Word became (Egeneto) flesh,' in distinction from Gennao, to beget, engender, create. the noun from Gennao is Gennema, the result of birth. But in Monogenes we have Genos, Jesus Christ designated as the only One of the same stock in the relationship of the Son to the Father. He is not to be understood as eternally born of the Father, but only in His humanity was He born. Therefore, Monogenos can be held as SYN. with the God-Man. Another reference to Jesus though not concirning Begotten is in Philippians 2:6-11, ' Who, being in the form (Morphe) of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore, God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: That at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every toungue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father.'"

The word Morphe means: "The appearance of 'Morphe' or 'Schema' implies someone to whom this appearance is made. There needs to be a seer before something can be seen. It becomes obj. real by its subj. realization. Morphe in Philippians 2:6-8 presumes an obj. reality. Non can be in form (Morphe) of God who was not God. Morphe is the reality which can be externalized, not some shape that is the result of pure thought. It is the utterance of the inner life, a life which bespeaks the existence of God. He who had been from eternity (En Morphe Theou), in the form of God (John 17:15), took at His incarnation (Morphen Doulou), the form of a servant."

I hope this is of great help; sorry I only used english vocabulary to describe Greek words.

2007-04-30 01:07:24 · answer #5 · answered by J.C.E Jude 1:3 2 · 0 0

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