If Jesus was God's only son then why do Christians call him father?

Question

Aren't we all God's children? If so then God had plenty of sons and daughters.

Answer 1

Good question. But Christianity is so full of contradictions it's no surprise about this one. Just to complicate matters, we are supposed to be a flock of sheep and Christ is our shepherd! Now that's creepy...!

Answer 2

Virgins don't just get pregnant out of the blue every day. God had an important role to play in the conception of Jesus. Whether or not that involved sex....I'm not going there for this one. The point is, Jesus is the only begotten of the Father, but we are all spirit children of our Father in Heaven.

Answer 3

Greetings,
When God created the Whole World,God made a man out of the Soil and breathed into him Life.Later,we see The Man and the Woman,Adam and Eve reject God by disobeying his warning.And so then sin came into existence.No Longer was anyone the son of God.

Jesus is our Saviour

"She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." - Mat.1:21

Every human being needs a saviour and God offers only Jesus for the remission of sins and for eternal life (Jn.3:16). Jesus took the sins of the whole world on His body to satisfy the justice of God, lavish the love of God and made himself a sacrifice of atonement by shedding His Blood, which contains eternal life on the cross. God made Him (Jesus) who new no sin to be sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God (2Cor.5:21). Thus, through His sacrificial death and resurrection, salvation and eternal life is available freely to all who believe and acknowledge this truth (Rom.10:9 / Eph.2:8).

Whoever believes in the Son of God,will be saved.Whoever obeys What God has commanded are Gods People.Through our faith in God,we are put righteous with God.
Peace Be With you.

Answer 4

it is incorrect Jesus was Gods first son.all who chose God through Jesus are called sons and daughters and become children of God and can call him father.that is why it is better to be called a child of God than a christian.

Answer 5

Jesus was God's only begotten son.

We are all sons of God and heirs to the inheritance as we accept Jesus Christ into our lives and hearts.

Answer 6

Christians don't call Jesus father - maybe Lord or Saviour, but not father.

above: "Most "Christians" believe in the trinity, so that means they reject the deity of the Father. That goes against Jesus' words and his Fathers."

You don't really understand the concept of the Trinity - Trinitarians certainly don't reject the deity of God the Father.

Answer 7

4:171. O people of the Book! commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah aught but truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) an Apostle of Allah and His Word which He bestowed on Mary and a Spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His Apostles. Say not "Trinity": desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is One Allah: glory be to him: (for Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs

5:73. They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a
Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah. If they desist not
from their word (of blasphemy) verily a grievous penalty will
befall the blasphemers among them

Answer 8

According to the book of Ephesians, when we accept by faith the gift that God gives us we are adopted into the family as joint heirs with Jesus:

1:5 He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will – 1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son. 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

Answer 9

Haven't you ever heard that a child is a father of a man?Your and my father were a son of somebody.Yes,a God is supposed to be FATHER FOR ALL ,billions of us.Any more doubt?

Answer 10

They don't. Jesus was/is totally man and at the same time was/is totally God...... He was God's only begotten son. [I think that's something along the lines of proper son]. the rest of us are only sons and daughters when cloaked under Christ's splendor.