What is the proof Jesus is eternally begotten son?

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SonJudgment

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Yes of course your referring to this verse

“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭13:8‬ ‭KJV‬‬

but don’t you think the rest of the Bible can help us understand what this verse on a heavenly vision means ?

For instance when does the Bible actually say Jesus was begotten or born in the flesh ?

Or another thing was God ever writing a book with peoples names in it from beforehand before jesus was begotten ?
Absolutely, that's why Peter's verse is also good.
 

SonJudgment

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Here is what I actually said:
I said nothing about Jesus allegedly being some sort of created being. Instead, I plainly stated that he is eternal, but not the eternally begotten Son of God. As scripture teaches, and as you have already repeatedly been shown, Jesus was begotten on the day in which he was raised from the dead (Psa. 2:7, Acts 13:32-33, Rev. 1:5).

Seeing how you have repeatedly shown yourself to be dishonest in our interactions here, you are going on ignore. Bye.
Right that's your contradiction. I have said no false accusation nor nothing amiss. You can't hold to Jesus both being the eternally begotten Son and also claim that Jesus is a created being that became God only at his resurrection, which is what the followers of Arianism believed. Therefore I suggest to get rid of the heresy that Jesus is only begotten at the resurrection and became God then, and retain that Jesus is the eternally begotten Son of God, very God from very God.
 

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Yes of course your referring to this verse

“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭13:8‬ ‭KJV‬‬

but don’t you think the rest of the Bible can help us understand what this verse on a heavenly vision means ?

For instance when does the Bible actually say Jesus was begotten or born in the flesh ?

Or another thing was God ever writing a book with peoples names in it from beforehand before jesus was begotten ?
This is offtopic but I feel compelled to point out that names can indeed be blotted out of the book of life. Judas' name was in the book of life, yet it was blotted out. There is a warning to a church in revelation about this as well.
 

PaulThomson

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Well first you said there was no mention of the Word being "begotten" anywhere in the text of John 1. Quite forgiveable. Now that you know that there is, go back to verse 1 and 2 for the eternal part.
No, I said there is no mention of begotten in the text of John 1:1-2

SonJudgment said:
The principle verses are from John 1, though indeed there are others, some of which have already been posted, praise Jesus.

John 1:1-2
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.


2 The same was in the beginning with God.

PaulThomson said:
There is no mention of the Word being begotten in that text. (i.e. John 1:1-2)
 

wattie

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Yes. The Person who became Jesus of Nazareth (a liitle lower than the angels) has been ever-existing. He had no beginning, so cannot have been begotten in eternity past. The human being Jesus of Nazareth died and was begotten from the dead, and is the only one so far begotten from the dead, and is the first-begotten from the dead and is now greater than all the angels. We will be begotten from the dead at the resurrection. And we will inherit a body like His, and we will inherit God's Kingdom with Him.

The concept of eternally-begotten makes no sense, is not in the Bible and is unnecessary.
Begotten is in the sense of inheritance ... the ultimate unique one.

Not about beginning/birthing
 

PaulThomson

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Then you should understand pretty easily that Jesus is the eternally begotten Son of God. The only alternatives to this are Arianism, which is saying that Jesus is a created being, and modalism which says that Jesus is just another mode of God and confuses the Son with the Father. Funny enough both will get you guaranteed to the eternal hellfire.

Again John 1 is the principle chapter for Jesus being the eternally begotten Son. Since the verses are already posted I will not post them again.
You are obviously wrong there. I myself am a counter-example. I personally do not think Jesus is a created being. My perspective is that the Person who became Jesus has always existed as the same Person. I do not believe that the Son is just another mode of God. I do not confuse the Son with the Father. And and I do not believe Jesus was eternally begotten, because the Bible never says the Son was eternally begotten. Nor, fortunately for you, is there any biblical evidence that an inaccurate Christology will automatically guarantee hellfire.
 

PaulThomson

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Begotten is in the sense of inheritance ... the ultimate unique one.

Not about beginning/birthing
Begotten does not have a sense of inheritance. Begotten and inheritance are different words with different meanings.
 

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This is offtopic but I feel compelled to point out that names can indeed be blotted out of the book of life. Judas' name was in the book of life, yet it was blotted out. There is a warning to a church in revelation about this as well.
“names can indeed be blotted out of the book of life. “

Amen Yes I agree that’s what i was meaning by other scripture being able to teach us more about the subject’s we notice in single verses for instance Moses knew about it

“Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin–; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭32:32-33‬ ‭KJV‬‬

and we can also make this correlation to being “ blotted out of his book of life “

Behold, all souls are mine; ( every name that has life and breath is in his book ) as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.”
‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭18:4‬ ‭

“Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.”

that’s still the same Lords word it’s coming from heaven ,only it’s before the part of the plan for him to be born in the flesh as the son has come, Gods always known the plan. And has been foretelling it through the prophets

The LORD is in his holy temple, The LORD's throne is in heaven:

His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭11:4‬ ‭KJV‬

eventually if you take those couple things he’s said in with this

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, And seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: There is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭14:2-3‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭3:23‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭5:12‬ ‭

then you have all mankind all who have ever sinned being condemned to death and destruction being blotted out of his book of life

Bit thank God that’s not the end of his plan !!



But he’s merciful so instead of holding everyone’s sins against them by the law , he’s made an atonement for mankind’s sin a “Propitiation “ in the place of the demand upon our living souls for death.

“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭15:3‬ ‭KJV‬‬

and so every sinner can have this word of death for sin fulfilled in Christ and doesn’t have to be condemned by thier sins and be blotted out of the book of life they can be saved from that.


So we know everyone is condemned by sin to be blotted out of his book in the ot but then he revealed more of his plan to redeem and save us from our sins and the condemnation awaiting mankind when we die in the New Testament


“He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭3:5‬ ‭KJV‬‬

I think when we only read single verses like this

“And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭20:15‬ ‭KJV‬‬

it can be interpreted that “ only some were written in the book to begin with “

but ( I think only my opinion ) when you read more about it just a few examples of many here regarding his book . You can see that the living are in the book and then later , thier sin is what causes them to be blotted out of his book .

And then you look at the gospel and see that even though we sinners are all due to be blotted out ,but thanks be to God that Jesus the son offers us a way to be saved from being blotted out because of our sins , to be saved from that final edit ….
 

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What is the proof Jesus is eternally begotten son?
1Ti 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Mic 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

From everlasting is no beginning.

Isa 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Isa 43:11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

1Ti 6:14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1Ti 6:15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
1Ti 6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

Jesus is God who has no beginning and cannot be a begotten God for there was no God formed after God or before God.

Also God means supreme being which if Jesus was begotten as a God then He would not be the supreme being, and not equal.

Also a created God is a contradiction for God makes nothing from His Spirit but He would be made from physical matter but then what kind of a God would that be that God could be broken down to physical matter.

God created nothing from His Spirit for then how can He be omnipresent and nothing can be made from His Spirit for it is His substance.

Jesus is called so He has no beginning and supreme being.

Rom 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Rev 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.

Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

God calls things that have not happened yet as though they already happened for it is a plan of God to happen in the future it is the same as if it happened in the beginning, for it will surely come to pass with no hindrance.

In the beginning was the plan of God to come in the future in flesh and without that plan He would of not created anything that was created for Jesus is the reason creation is successful eternal life, and to judge the angels and people.

Jesus is the beginning of creation according to His humanity for God calls things that have not happened yet as though they already happened, and the man Christ Jesus is the mediator between God and men.

Jesus is God manifest in the flesh which He is the fulness of the Godhead bodily and the Spirit in Christ is still connected to the omnipresent Spirit of God for He cannot be separated.

The man Christ Jesus does not have His own Spirit that moves around with Him for there cannot be a double portion of the Spirit in one area and an empty space where the Spirit is not at but He moves through the Spirit, and wherever He is at the Spirit is there.
 

Pilgrimshope

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Begotten is in the sense of inheritance ... the ultimate unique one.

Not about beginning/birthing
Based upon what ? Jesus is literally the only person ever born of a virgin with Gods word declaring it before hand that his son would be born of a virgin being Emmanuel god with us.it seems only begotten means only begotten in the doctrine of the Bible which teaches us of the birth of Christ the only begotten son
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Jesus Christ has come in the flesh
 

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What is the proof Jesus is eternally begotten son?
The Scripture teaches this truth.
If you do not believe it, you are on the wrong forum.
Can not believe a Christian would ask such a foolish question and then disappear.
 

SonJudgment

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No, I said there is no mention of begotten in the text of John 1:1-2

SonJudgment said:
The principle verses are from John 1, though indeed there are others, some of which have already been posted, praise Jesus.

John 1:1-2
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.


2 The same was in the beginning with God.

PaulThomson said:
There is no mention of the Word being begotten in that text. (i.e. John 1:1-2)
Well fair enough, though I did say the principle text is John 1, meaning the entire chapter as the text, and merely gave the first two verses for brevity.


You are obviously wrong there. I myself am a counter-example. I personally do not think Jesus is a created being. My perspective is that the Person who became Jesus has always existed as the same Person. I do not believe that the Son is just another mode of God. I do not confuse the Son with the Father. And and I do not believe Jesus was eternally begotten, because the Bible never says the Son was eternally begotten. Nor, fortunately for you, is there any biblical evidence that an inaccurate Christology will automatically guarantee hellfire.
Well then like the other fellow you're holding a contradiction by trying to say Jesus is both eternal and also flirting with Arianism when you say that Jesus became Jesus only when he is begotten to the virgin Mary. Jesus cannot become Jesus only once, he always was Jesus and always wil be Jesus, which means he is the one and only eternally begotten Son of God, very God from very God. I suggest just get rid of the heretical notions that Jesus only became Jesus once, discard them, retain the good which is that Jesus is indeed eternal, the eternally begotten Son of God. As for guaranteed helfire, yea, if you don't believe Jesus is the eternally begotten Son of God then you are denying key and important detail about Jesus, so you'll definitely go to the hellfire (2 Peter 2) just like the saints official said you will, that s very much certain.

See the article posted in post #43 about why the saints official believed in eternal generation of Jesus as opposed to the heresy of Arianism and the heresy of modalism. Also see the Athanasian Creed, which I will link below.

https://www.ccel.org/creeds/athanasian.creed.html
 

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'As God with perfect clearness, fullness, and strength, understands Himself, views His own essence, . . . that idea which God hath of Himself is absolutely Himself. This representation of the Divine nature and essence is the Divine nature and essence again: so that by God’s thinking of the Deity, [the Deity] must certainly be generated. Hereby there is another person begotten, there is another infinite, eternal, Almighty and most holy and the same God, the very same Divine nature. And this Person is the second person in the Trinity, the only begotten and dearly beloved Son of God. '(Works of Jonathan Edwards, 21:116–17)
 

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I disagree, and no, they are not.

Jhn 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Jhn 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

The context of John 3:17 is a conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus on our need to be born again, or on our need to inherit eternal life through belief or faith in Jesus. What is that belief or faith based upon? Is it based upon some unbiblical notion that Jesus was eternally begotten? No, it is not. Again, that terminology is self-contradictory. Instead, that belief or faith is based upon this.

Rom 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

In order to be saved, or in order to be born again, or in order to inherit eternal life, we must believe in our hearts that God has raised Jesus from the dead, and this is precisely what he did when Jesus was begotten from the dead (Acts 13:33, Rev. 1.5). In other words, not only are the words eternally begotten self-contradictory, but even if they were not, then nobody would be saved by believing that Jesus was allegedly God's eternally begotten Son. That notion is totally unbiblical.

Psa 45:6
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
Psa 45:7
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Heb 1:8
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Heb 1:9
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

In these portions of scripture, the Son is one who had to be anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows, and this happened after Jesus had been resurrected or begotten from the dead (Acts 13:33, Rev. 1:5) or when he ascended back to heaven to be crowned with glory and honor (Psa. 8:5, Heb. 2:9). In other words, these verses are not talking about something from eternity past.
Although the word begotten can be rightly interpreted in certain portions of scripture to mean fathered, that is not how it is used in scripture in relation to Jesus. In Jesus' case, it is used in reference to his resurrection from the dead.

Just ask yourself this simple question:

Seeing how we need to believe in the only begotten Son in order to be saved (John 3:16), is our salvation based upon us believing that Jesus was fathered by God either in eternity past or at his incarnation, or is our salvation based upon us believing that Jesus was raised or begotten from the dead (Acts 13:33, Rev. 1:5)?

I trust that you know the correct answer to this question.
#1. Proverbs 30:4
"Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?"

  • Hints at the existence of the Son even in the Old Testament.

#2. Hebrews 1:1-2
"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds."

  • Identifies Jesus as the eternal Son through whom God created the worlds.

#3. 1 John 4:14
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world."

  • The Father sent the Son, affirming His preexistent Sonship.

#4. Psalms 2:12
"Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him."

  • We are told to kiss the Son in the Old Testament.


Side Note:

Revelation 13:8
"And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."

  • The Son’s redemptive work was planned from eternity.


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PaulThomson

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Well fair enough, though I did say the principle text is John 1, meaning the entire chapter as the text, and merely gave the first two verses for brevity.




Well then like the other fellow you're holding a contradiction by trying to say Jesus is both eternal and also flirting with Arianism when you say that Jesus became Jesus only when he is begotten to the virgin Mary. Jesus cannot become Jesus only once, he always was Jesus and always wil be Jesus, which means he is the one and only eternally begotten Son of God, very God from very God. I suggest just get rid of the heretical notions that Jesus only became Jesus once, discard them, retain the good which is that Jesus is indeed eternal, the eternally begotten Son of God. As for guaranteed helfire, yea, if you don't believe Jesus is the eternally begotten Son of God then you are denying key and important detail about Jesus, so you'll definitely go to the hellfire (2 Peter 2) just like the saints official said you will, that s very much certain.

See the article posted in post #43 about why the saints official believed in eternal generation of Jesus as opposed to the heresy of Arianism and the heresy of modalism. Also see the Athanasian Creed, which I will link below.

https://www.ccel.org/creeds/athanasian.creed.html
"...Jesus cannot become Jesus only once, he always was Jesus and always will be Jesus."

Where does scripture say Jesus was always human, even before the incarnation?
 

SonJudgment

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"...Jesus cannot become Jesus only once, he always was Jesus and always will be Jesus."

Where does scripture say Jesus was always human, even before the incarnation?
If you think Jesus only became Jesus when he was conceived in the flesh of the virgin Mary you're basically flirting with Arianism, that's where you've gone wrong. Jesus was around before even Mary's ancestor Abraham. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Jesus is the only eternally begotten Son of God.
 

Dino246

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The Scripture teaches this truth.
If you do not believe it, you are on the wrong forum.
Can not believe a Christian would ask such a foolish question and then disappear.
Where in Scripture does it teach that Jesus is the "eternally begotten"? Chapter(s) and verse(s), please.

Please don't waste your time trying to defend the idea that Jesus is "begotten"; that's not my question.
 

Dino246

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If you think Jesus only became Jesus when he was conceived in the flesh of the virgin Mary you're basically flirting with Arianism, that's where you've gone wrong. Jesus was around before even Mary's ancestor Abraham. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Jesus is the only eternally begotten Son of God.
Try responding to the specific question asked instead of mentally rewording it and responding to your own misunderstanding.