Why does the Catholic Church say Jesus was begotten when Jesus says he proceeds from the Father? Mistaken?

Question

John 8:42: "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and come from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me."

Answer 1

begotten
verb
A past participle of beget

be·get
[Middle English biyeten, bigeten, from Old English begetan.]
transitive verb: -got (-gŏt'), -got·ten (-gŏt'n) or -got, -get·ting, -gets.
To father; sire.
To cause to exist or occur; produce: Violence begets more violence.

derivatives
be·get'ter
noun

Answer 2

Even the (non-Catholic) King James Bible states that Jesus was begotten. See John 1:14:

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Arianism is a heresy which arose in the fourth century, and denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ.

Using Greek terms, it denies that the Son is of one essence, nature, or substance with God; He is not consubstantial (homoousios) with the Father, and therefore not like Him, nor equal in dignity, nor co-eternal, nor within the real sphere of Deity.

The Nicene Creed's first line about the belief in Jesus Christ explicitly denies the claims of Arianism:

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains what we believe in depth:
http://www.nccbuscc.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt2.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

The Bible wasn't written in English -- why are you using it to distinguish between different religions?

Since the new Testament was written by Catholics and put together by Catholics, wouldn't it mean that a version that differs from the Catholic version was heretical? Why are you quoting heretical texts?

Have you looked at what the Greek says -- or the Latin Vulgate? Catholics would tend to use the Latin Vulgate as their guide to translating into other languages.

Answer 4

"Begotten, not made, one in being with the Father..."