Oh you guys, trying to figure out things of infinite nature with finite minds. This can lead to insanity, do you not know that?
lol.
I'll try to explain it the way I learned from
C.S. Lewis, from his book
Mere Christianity:
Jesus was God's only
begotten son. This wasn't talking about the virgin birth; this was talking about before nature was created at all... before time was even started!
Now, to
beget something means to become the father of; like a man
begets human babies, a bird
begets eggs that turn into little birds, and so on. God didn't create His Son, because that wouldn't have made him God (although I'm sure He could've winged it!).
We, however, are not God, because we were not begotten, but CREATED by God. We're to God like what a statue is to us; a likeness, but not the same.
Now for the tricky part: the glue that holds Them together. This glue is something C.S. Lewis called dimensions. Now, if you have one single dimension, you can have only a straight line. If you have two, you could draw a figure (say, a square) made of straight lines on a flat surface. With three dimensions, we can have an actual solid body, like a cubed lump of sugar; made up of six squares, but still being one single lump of sugar.
This is where you find your "God glue" (hehe I made that one up). In His dimensions, there are three Beings (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) on a lower* dimension that make up one Being on a higher* dimension, like the 2D squares that make up the 3D sugar lump. That Being is God.
I believe that is how
C.S. Lewis described it. I haven't read the book in a while. If it's heretical, please show me
in the Bible the part that it's contradicting.
*
I used "lower" and "higher" for lack of better words; I know "lower" isn't a good way to describe it, it's more like a parallel dimension.