2007-10-04 04:31:59 · 27 answers · asked by Ilhaan U 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus is the only begotten son of God. Adam and Eve (and you and me) were created by God, not begotten by him. We were begotten by our parents.
2007-10-04 04:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
God created Adam out of dust and Eve from a rib of Adam. Jesus was born of woman, the only begotten son of God.
2007-10-04 11:35:33 · answer #2 · answered by lilith663 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Dreadful confusion is caused by our inability to distinguish between literal and symbolic, fleshly and spiritual. Sonship and fatherhood in the Bible come on two different levels - physical and spiritual.
Adam was physically created by God from earth's dust, so in that sense God was his Father. Prior to becoming Jesus (the man, born of a woman) the Word of God existed with God from all eternity, and was God. He created all things, and the Holy Spirit was also inseparable in creation, so we have the Trinity creating Adam physically.
The Word emptied himself of his heavenly glory in order to be incarnated as the man Jesus and the Bible speaks of him being the only BEGOTTEN Son of God, not the only son. Because the Greek word for 'begotten' is misunderstood, people think of sexual begetting. This is blasphemous. The Greek word for such begetting is NEVER used of Jesus! A different Greek word, meaning pre-eminence, priority, is used and so it means Jesus has the pre-eminent place and is uniquely God's Son in a spiritual sense. I hope your question was sincerely asked and I sincerely hope this answer will clarify the problem for you.
2007-10-04 11:54:22 · answer #3 · answered by Annsan_In_Him 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
with Adam and Eve God formed them from dust fully grown with Jesus God fretilised the egg
2007-10-04 11:35:49 · answer #4 · answered by attb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve had no father. They are God's creation after creating the heavens and the earth. They are our first parents.
2007-10-04 11:39:50 · answer #5 · answered by Lance 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is the only begotten son of God which means he is the only person or part of Creation that was brought into creation solely by God. All other parts of creation were from that point on brought into existencs by Jesus under God's power and direction. That is why he is called the first born of all Creation
2007-10-04 11:41:54 · answer #6 · answered by Grant l 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Check Genesis and the New Testament accounts of Jesus' birth again, please. G-d "created" Adam and Eve, thus he is their Father through the action of giving them life. Jesus is one with G-d, born a man into this world through Mary's reception of G-d through the Holy Spirit's intercession, thus the "Son of G-d".
2007-10-04 11:37:46 · answer #7 · answered by Goethe's Ghostwriter 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God created Adam from the dust and Eve from Adam's rid.
Genesis 2:
7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.
22 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
23 The man said,
"This is now bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man."
2007-10-04 11:37:13 · answer #8 · answered by uidittybop 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Who said Jesus is the son of God. If so then why did the Omnipotent did not do anything about his son being tortured to death?
2007-10-04 11:41:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can be sons of God through faith in Jesus. But we will never be divine like Jesus is (and has been for all eternity); but we can share in the divine nature and experience and know God's love. He was incarnated in human form so that as our representative He could fairly take our sins on Himself and pay for them with the full measure of justice dealt out on Him. Those who believe in Him, have their sins forgiven through him, and become adopted into God's family.
2007-10-04 11:38:45 · answer #10 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Two Gods to compare, have two sons to compare.
It's allegory about compare-i-son of Law vs Grace.
Jesus: Son of God on high: John 3:16 ... Law(was)
Christ: Son of higher God: John 3:17 ... Grace(is)
Jesus plays two parts: Son of man and Son of God;
Offers two resurrections: latter of damnation: John 5.
Christ(is the end of the law law) plays one part:
Son of God in heaven: "higher than the heavens",
with one resurrection unto life(only), and for all.
E-life of e-salvation is "through Jesus --> Christ".
Jesus: the Saviour of Israel
Christ: the Saviour of the world
To wit, that God was in "Christ" reconciling "the world"
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus-->Christ with you-->all. Amen.
2007-10-04 11:43:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋