So if god gave his "only begotten son" jesus christ?

Question

then how is jesus god's earthly form? I just don't get it unless they are 2 different beings. Can someone clarify?

Answer 1

Only one God. But, 3 Gods. Don't make sense. One is God Father, one is God Holy Ghost, and one is God the Son (Jesus) but, which one do we worship? All 3?
And if all 3 are one God, why are all 3 called Gods?
Makes no sense to me. A Biblical quandry of misinformation and contradictions.

Answer 2

Jesus Christ is GOD made into flesh. They are one in the same. The term only begotten son means his only blood son. We are all His children in a spiritual sense. Much like a man is his wife's father's "son" by marriage. Think of Christ as the groom and christians as the bride.

Answer 3

I don't get the trinity either. If you are a begotten son you are a son of the flesh (i.e. matching DNA and all that). Besides when I read the Bible God the Father is always saying things to Jesus his SON and Jesus is always talking about his FATHER. If you read the scriptures of Christ's baptism the Holy Ghost is also a separate being.

They act as one in purpuse but they are 3 seperate beings making up the Godhead.

Answer 4

The "Son of God" is spirit. It is God's only spiritual son. This is why he is the "only begotten son". This spirit was sent to earth with a purpose of reconciling mankind with God. To live on earth though, a human form was required to house this spirit. The human body was Jesus (and in times past Mithras, Osiris, etc.) That's my current understanding of it.

Blessings in the Light of Christ!
~Embracing my Pangelism

Answer 5

God is a spirit. God placed some of His holy spirit inside the physical flesh of Jesus and lived among His people. Then He died in the flesh and His spirit was placed within a resurrected body. He lives and reigns with God His Father from heaven.

Believe this and you too shall be given a resurrection body and will live forever in heaven. BTW, go to church and read the Bible sometimes.

Answer 6

The Bible describes Jesus as a pre-existent Being and co-Creator of the universe called the "Word of God":

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. "

"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. "
John 1:1-3,14

When it says He was "with God", this is referring to God the Father.

According to the plan and purpose of God, He emptied Himself of His divine powers to become a man.

"Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. "
Philippians 2:5-11

Thus in dying for the sins of mankind He was able both to represent man as a bona fide member of the human race, and to bear the sins of the whole world, because He was, and always will be God.

Answer 7

John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten (monogenēs) Son of God.

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μονογενής
monogenḗs; gen. monogenoús, masc.-fem., neut. monogenón, from mónos (G3441), only, and génos (G1085), stock. Unique, one of a kind, one and only. The only one of the family (Luk_7:12 referring to the only son of his mother; Luk_8:42, the daughter of Jairus; Luk_9:38, the demoniac boy).

John alone uses monogenḗs to describe the relation of Jesus to God the Father, presenting Him as the unique one, the only one (mónos) of a class or kind (génos), in the discussion of the relationship of the Son to the Father (Joh_1:14, Joh_1:18; Joh_3:16, Joh_3:18; 1Jo_4:9). Génos, from which genḗs in monogenḗs is derived, means race, stock, family, class or kind, and génō comes from gínomai (G1096), become, as in Joh_1:14, "and the Word became [egéneto] flesh."

This is in distinction from gennáō (G1080), to beget, engender or create. The noun from gennáō is génnēma (G1081), the result of birth. So then, the word means one of a kind or unique. There are two schools of thought regarding the meaning of this term.

The first view, which began with Origen, teaches that Christ's unique Sonship and His generation by the Father are eternal being predicated of Him in respect to His participation in the Godhead. Although monogenḗs was traditionally cited in proof of this explanation, modern proponents, recognizing the mistaken identification of genḗs as a derivative of gennáō instead of génos, understand the word to be descriptive of the kind of Sonship Christ possesses and not of the process establishing such a relationship. This would serve to distinguish the Sonship of Christ to God from that spoken of other beings, e.g., Adam (Luk_3:28), angels (Job_1:6), or believers (Joh_1:12).

The last view teaches that Christ's unique Sonship and generation by the Father are predicated of Him in respect to the incarnation. The proponents of this interpretation unequivocally affirm the triune nature of the Godhead and Christ's deity teaching that it is the word lógos (G3056), Word, which designates His personage within the Godhead. Christ's Sonship expresses an economical relationship between the Word and the Father assumed via the incarnation.

This stands in fulfillment of OT prophecies which identify Christ as both human, descending from David, and divine, originating from God. Like David and the other kings descending from him, Christ is the Son of God by position (2Sa_7:14), but unlike them and because of His divine nature, He is par excellence the Son of God by nature (Psa_2:7; Heb_1:5).

Thus the appellation refers to the incarnate Word, God made flesh, not simply the preincarnate Word. Therefore, monogenḗs can be held as syn. with the God- Man. Jesus was the only such one ever, in distinction with the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Triune God.

He is never called téknon Theoú (téknon [G5043], child; Theoú [G2316], of God) as the believers are (Joh_1:12; Joh_11:52; 1Jo_3:1-2, 1Jo_3:10; 1Jo_5:2). In Joh_5:18, Jesus called God His very own (ídion [G2398]) Father. To Jesus, God was not a Father as He is to us. See Joh_20:17. He never spoke of God as the common Father of Him and believers. The term monogenḗs also occurs in Heb_11:17.

Answer 8

First, we must admit that we are not bigger, wiser, smarter, etc, than God. We must accept that there are things about God that we will not understand in this life. Next, the Bible actually identifies three qualities of God's existence - 3 persons in one entity, if you will. God exists as Creator, Redeemer - Jesus, and Sustainer or the One who is always with us - the Holy Spirit. Here's what I would suggest, if you really want to know who/what God is, then seek the answer to the question: Who is Jesus?

Answer 9

there are 3 different beings. God the father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. But they are all God. There's some things we won't understand until we come face to face with God.

Answer 10

Begotten, to procreate as the father. It is from the Old English, means to sire. According to this verse, god sired a child.

Answer 11

"The Trinity . . . It did not find a place formally in the theology of the church till the 4th century." -- The Illustrated Bible Dictionary

"The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of Father, Son and Holy Ghost made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism . . . Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain old-fashioned polytheism.

By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion to ever have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism. This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with by accusing other religions of the Christian fault. The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan.

The external history of Christianity consists largely of accusations that other religions rely on the worship of more than one god and therefore not the true God. These pagans must therefore be converted, conquered and/or killed for their own good in order that they benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages." -- The Doubter's Companion (John Ralston Saul)



‘Christ according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the holy Ghost the third. Each of these three persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as his father, and the father is just as young as his son. The Holy Ghost proceeded form the Father and Son, but was an equal to the Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say before he existed, but he is of the same age as the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.’

- Col. Robert G. Ingersoll



God is not the author of confusion. (1 Corinthians 14:33)


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