People describe Jesus as "the only BEGOTTEN son of God". wtf ? begotten? What does begotten really mean?

Question

there is NOTHING Spiritual about "begotten";

look it up in the dictionary...

Answer 1

LMAO...Thanks for the laugh. I needed that.

Answer 2

Thank you for this opportunity to explain the Greek word translated ‘only-begotten’. Sadly, all the definitions offered so far are based on the ENGLISH word. None of them are valid because this is a Koine Greek word.

‘Monogenes’ is used in John 1:18 but you should not be surprised to learn that, apart from sexual generation, other definitions of it are: “only one of its kind – unique – single – only.” By concentrating on the connection between a father and a son (as in literal, physical, sexual generation), Muslims jump upon this possibility to say that the Bible teaches God had sex with Mary. What God-fearing person wants to be identified with that kind of perverse argumentation?

Monogenes can also mean “priority” and “pre-eminence”. ”The Truth of God Incarnate” book said the best manuscripts render John 1:18 as ‘the only-begotten one, himself God, has made him known’ (NIV etc). But anti-trinitarians will have none of that! On with the blinkers! Shout at the top of your voices to drown out all other voices!

Please also weigh up another point re. John 1:18. The Greek ‘Theos’ (x2), translated God (with a capital G and no definite article, ‘a’, before it even in the Jehovah's Witnesses translations) is EXACTLY THE SAME GREEK WORD in Jn 8:54, which refers to Jehovah God. This makes nonsense of the Watchtower Society's excuses about translating Jn 1:1 as “a god”. Theological prejudice is exposed for what it is. People who are spiritually dead will never see anything spiritual in the Bible's use of 'monogenes' when referring to Jesus Christ. That's because Jesus Christ is a rock-mass of offence and a stone of stumbling - as God's word said he would be.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Begotten:
1 : to procreate as the father : SIRE
2 : to produce especially as an effect or outgrowth

Basically it means that Jesus was a part of God made flesh. He was not a seperately created being/creature. This measns that Jesus is infact God. The only Begotten NOT made son of God. We are all the sons of God as he is our Father but we were made by him. Jesys was not made by God he IS God. Hence, Begotten.

Answer 5

begotten means conceived

and that comes from a religion that says God is not a human!! haha

who by the way also equates jesus with God so God actually gave birth to himself?

mind boggling Ill say

another mind boggling matter, is if Jesus is the only begotten son, who is Adam? I mean, what makes Jesus so unique is the fact that he had a mother? but to me it looks as if Adam was more special cause he had neither, and I dont recall him ever calling God: 'father'

Edit: Randy G seems to have summed it up nicely for you. Jesus is not created!! what utter nonsense, everything but God is created. Otherwise that would mean that God reproduced asexually or he cloned himself.

Answer 6

Jesus was God the Son from all eternity .When He took on a tent of Human Flesh,He was begotten through an" invitro -type" fertilization .

Answer 7

Begotten is yet another be conscious for born - Jesus replaced into born. Adam replaced into made out of the airborne dirt and dust of the floor, he replaced into by no potential interior the womb or replaced into born. subsequently Adam is God's Son, yet Jesus is His in common terms Begotten son.

Answer 8

be·get [ bi gét ] (past be·got [ bi gót ], past participle be·got·ten [ bi gótt'n ] or be·got, present participle be·get·ting, 3rd person present singular be·gets)


transitive verb

Definition:

1. cause: to be the cause of something


2. father: to be the father of a child ( archaic )


[ Old English begietan "get" < Germanic
In the time it took you to post this question, you could have looked it up yourself. Get a dictionary or search it on the web. Nobody said it was something spiritual. You assumed it was since it was in the Bible. Not all words in the Bible have spiritual meaning or originate from that.

Answer 9

BEGOTTEN
Sense 1 begotten
Meaning:
(of offspring) generated by procreation....

Answer 10

beget
–verb (used with object), be·got or (Archaic) be·gat; be·got·ten or be·got; be·get·ting.
1. (esp. of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
2. to cause; produce as an effect: a belief that power begets power.


So... it technically means, Jesus was the only offspring of God, the only generated son of God. Who says every word in the Bible has to be Spiritual? Is "the" a Spiritual word?

Answer 11

Trinitarians claim that in the case of Jesus, "only-begotten" is not the same as the dictionary definition of "begetting," which is "to procreate as the father." (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary) They say that in Jesus' case it means "the sense of unoriginated relationship," a sort of only son relationship without the begetting. (Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words) Does that sound logical to you? Can a man father a son without begetting him?


Jesus said that he had a prehuman existence, having been created by God as the beginning of God's invisible creations

Furthermore, why does the Bible use the very same Greek word for "only-begotten" (as Vine admits without any explanation) to describe the relationship of Isaac to Abraham? Hebrews 11:17 speaks of Isaac as Abraham's "only-begotten son." There can be no question that in Isaac's case, he was only-begotten in the normal sense, not equal in time or position to his father.

The basic Greek word for "only-begotten" used for Jesus and Isaac is mo·no·ge·nes', from mo'nos, meaning "only," and gi'no·mai, a root word meaning "to generate," "to become (come into being)," states Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. Hence, mo·no·ge·nes' is defined as: "Only born, only begotten, i.e. an only child."—A Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament, by E. Robinson.

The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, edited by Gerhard Kittel, says: "[Mo·no·ge·nes'] means 'of sole descent,' i.e., without brothers or sisters." This book also states that at John 1:18; 3:16, 18; and 1 John 4:9, "the relation of Jesus is not just compared to that of an only child to its father. It is the relation of the only-begotten to the Father."

So Jesus, the only-begotten Son, had a beginning to his life. And Almighty God can rightly be called his Begetter, or Father, in the same sense that an earthly father, like Abraham, begets a son. (Hebrews 11:17) Hence, when the Bible speaks of God as the "Father" of Jesus, it means what it says—that they are two separate individuals. God is the senior. Jesus is the junior—in time, position, power, and knowledge.

When one considers that Jesus was not the only spirit son of God created in heaven, it becomes evident why the term "only-begotten Son" was used in his case. Countless other created spirit beings, angels, are also called "sons of God," in the same sense that Adam was, because their life-force originated with Jehovah God, the Fountain, or Source, of life. (Job 38:7; Psalm 36:9; Luke 3:38) But these were all created through the "only-begotten Son," who was the only one directly begotten by God.—Colossians 1:15-17.