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originally posted by: new_here
originally posted by: BlackManINC
originally posted by: new_here
a reply to: sacgamer25
This definition of begotten:
The word "begotten" generally suggests the idea of originating from or being produced by someone else
...inspired me to see the passage "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son..." in a whole new light.
The Angels and Jesus are sons of God. Jesus was the only 'begotten' son because he was the only one to be born from a human's womb. Mary gave birth to Jesus (aka 'begot' him) whereas all sons of God were initially created by God speaking them into existence. No begetting by involved. Jesus existed with God before being begotten, just as all the Angels did/do. But Jesus is the only one of them 'begotten' by a woman. The only 'begotten' son.
I'm not sure I explained that well, but I see a difference in that He is not the ONLY son, but the only BEGOTTEN son.
Interesting.
Jesus didn't just exist with God before he was begotten, he was God in his very essence from the beginning.
Yes, but he prayed to God the Father "take this cup from me if it by Thy Will" and He sits at the right hand of God, and He said, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" and "Father, into Thy Hands I commend My Spirit." Pretty sure He wasn't talking to Himself. It's complicated, the Trinity. But They seem to be able to be One, but at the same time communicate amongst themselves. So there is that. After all, Jesus was begotten, while God the Father ordained it, and remained in Heaven and Jesus communed with Him. Like I said... complicated.
originally posted by: sacgamer25
a reply to: new_here
...the father is the the one who created our Lord and retains the sole power to destroy us.
Jesus didn't just exist with God before he was begotten, he was God in his very essence from the beginning.
Adam was produced from the IMAGE of the Son of God. Who formed Adam? Yahweh, the son of God. Who was Jesus the incarnation of? Yahweh, the humbled Son of God, who also proclaimed Himself to be the only God.
originally posted by: sacgamer25
If he is the light in Genesis, is he still before all other things, except the father and possibly the elements that were used to create the light
he is our Shepard sent to lead us to our father/Love. Which is why he called us brothers and friends.
originally posted by: AlephBet
Mankind was CREATED (as in not in existence before) in God's image, BOTH male and female. They were whole.
Adam was FORMED in Genesis 2, then Eve was taken from the rib and formed. Formed means taking the archetype and producing a copy.
First Born cannot be Adam, because he was formed. Eve was formed as well. Cain was born. If you check Luke 3, you find this:
37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch,
the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel,
the son of Kenan, 38 the son of Enosh,
the son of Seth, the son of Adam,
the son of God.
Adam was produced from the IMAGE of the Son of God. Who formed Adam? Yahweh, the son of God. Who was Jesus the incarnation of? Yahweh, the humbled Son of God, who also proclaimed Himself to be the only God. Who formed the Snake in the garden to deceive Adam?
Genesis 1
3 The snake was more clever than all the wild animals Yahweh Elohim had made. He asked the woman, “Did Elohim really say, ‘You must never eat the fruit of any tree in the garden’?”
Now, simply ask yourself who the Prodigal Son was and who the one producing the fallen creation is:
Colossians 1
15 He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of all creation.
16 He created all things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible.
Whether they are kings or lords,
rulers or powers—
everything has been created through him and for him.
17 He existed before everything
and holds everything together.
18 He is also the head of the church, which is his body.
He is the beginning,
the first to come back to life
so that he would have first place in everything.
If you simply use the names of God Bible, you then discover that Elohim is Father and Ruach Elohim is Mother. They created the paradise image of Genesis 1. There were no restrictions to the Garden or its fruit. Man was BOTH Male and Female in the image of God (Elohim / Ruach Elohim). The Holy Spirit is the Ruach Elohim, the same one that made peace with the Son of God (Yahweh) at his baptism by the sign of the Dove. The Father said well pleased. Why? He paid his penance on the cross for proclaiming Himself God. In turn, all of mankind is free from His error of dividing mankind into Male and Female.
In the Islamic tradition, one Angel refused to incorporate into a material body and bow to Adam. That's Satan. What is Satan, or the snake? The continuance of creation past God's resting period, or his lower nature of the prodigal son in rebellion.
As Colossians states, the Son of God was born. Adam was not born. Jesus was, as the Kinsman Redeemer.
Job 19 then tells you about this:
But I know that my Go’el (Redeemer) lives,
and afterwards, he will rise on the earth.
26 Even after my skin has been stripped off my body,
I will see Eloah in my own flesh.
27 I will see him with my own eyes,
not with someone else’s.
My heart fails inside me!
Job Warns His Friends
28 “You say,
‘We will persecute him!
The root of the problem is found in him.’
29 Fear death,
because your anger is punishable by death.
Then you will know there is a judge.”
Don't hound him because the error is found in him. Instead, thank him for saving us all and paying the penalty for the fall from the true Heaven of Genesis 1.
The word beget has it's origin in the 13th century. So how can you say it has its origins in the first century.
So the idea of God begitting a son by human methods still existed when Mohammed was given the Quran. Unless the translators of both texts are wrong, but I think it's only the bible that is mistranslated.
Mohammed says God created everything but begot nothing. That is a contradiction according to your use of the word.
I know what you learned in church. I am not Muslim or Christian. I am not Buddhist, I am not Hindu, I am not Jew, I am not a Zoroastrian, I am not Greek nor am I Egyptian, but I am of the light.
Numbers 16:2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Genesis 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
originally posted by: new_here
originally posted by: BlackManINC
originally posted by: new_here
a reply to: sacgamer25
This definition of begotten:
The word "begotten" generally suggests the idea of originating from or being produced by someone else
...inspired me to see the passage "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son..." in a whole new light.
The Angels and Jesus are sons of God. Jesus was the only 'begotten' son because he was the only one to be born from a human's womb. Mary gave birth to Jesus (aka 'begot' him) whereas all sons of God were initially created by God speaking them into existence. No begetting by involved. Jesus existed with God before being begotten, just as all the Angels did/do. But Jesus is the only one of them 'begotten' by a woman. The only 'begotten' son.
I'm not sure I explained that well, but I see a difference in that He is not the ONLY son, but the only BEGOTTEN son.
Interesting.
Jesus didn't just exist with God before he was begotten, he was God in his very essence from the beginning.
Yes, but he prayed to God the Father "take this cup from me if it by Thy Will" and He sits at the right hand of God, and He said, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" and "Father, into Thy Hands I commend My Spirit." Pretty sure He wasn't talking to Himself. It's complicated, the Trinity. But They seem to be able to be One, but at the same time communicate amongst themselves. So there is that. After all, Jesus was begotten, while God the Father ordained it, and remained in Heaven and Jesus communed with Him. Like I said... complicated.
originally posted by: arpgme
a reply to: sacgamer25
Don't forget this verse. When giving the genealogy of Jesus Christ, it says that Adam is The Son of God:
"Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God." - Luke 3:38
originally posted by: sacgamer25
If one can assume the angels have intercourse with humans than one could also imagine that the Holy Spirit had intercourse with Marry.
What does the bible say about who the sons of God are?
According to scripture anyone who follows "the Light", Jesus Christ within, is considered a son of God. So who are the Nephlim?
Genesis 6:1-22 ESV
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The term “sons of God” is only used in the Old Testament to refer to angels. And of course the “daughters of men” are the daughters of Adam.
Enakeim; also called "sons of Anak" (Numbers 13:33), and "sons of the Anakim" (Deuteronomy 1:28)): The spies (Numbers 13:33) compared them to the Nephilim or "giants" of Genesis 6:4, and according to Deuteronomy 2:11
Nephilim Giants mated with humans, and their children are called the Elouid, or sometimes they are known by the name Eljo.
And they [the women] bore to them [the Watchers] three races–first, the great giants. The giants brought forth the Naphelim, and the Naphelim brought forth the Elioud. And they existed, increasing in power according to their greatness. For owing to these three things came the flood upon the earth, namely, owing to the fornication wherein the Watchers against the law of their ordinances went a whoring after the daughters of men, and took themselves wives of all which they chose: and they made the beginning of uncleanness. And they begat sons the Nâphîdîm, and they were all unlike, and they devoured one another: and the Giants slew the Nâphîl, and the Nâphîl slew the Eljô, and the Eljô mankind, and one man another.”
originally posted by: sacgamer25
You obviously didn't understand my point. I don't believe that the Holy Spirit had intercourse with Mary. I'm saying that the belief existed only.
Angels are the human spirits united to the Holy Spirit.
After their descent to the lowlands, the Watchers indulge in earthly delights with their chosen ’wives’, and through these unions are born giant offspring named as Nephilim, a Hebrew word meaning ’Those Who Have Fallen’, which is rendered in Greek translations as gigantes, or ’Giants’.
Concerning the path to the self-begotten ones, those in which you have now been baptized each time, a path worthy of seeing the perfect [...] individuals: it serves as knowledge of the All since it came into being from the powers of the self-begotten ones, the one you acquire when you pass through the all-perfect aeons.
The third is that of the souls of the self-begotten ones because they have a word of the ineffable truth, one which exists in knowledge and power from themselves alone and eternal life. They have four differences like the species of angels who exist: those who love the truth; those who hope; those who believe having [...]; those who are [...] They exist, he being [...] the self-begotten ones [...] he is the one belonging to perfect life; the second is [...] the [...] knowledge [...] the fourth is that one belonging to the immortal souls [...]
-Zostrianos