Now let's speak of Abraham and HIS children, for these WERE 'begotten'.
And PLEASE explain to me HOW you come to the conclusion that for Christ to BE the ONLY BEGOTTEN SON of God He could NOT have been 'created'?
And PLEASE explain to ME and 'others' that this is NOTHING more than your PERSONAL opinion that is based on NOTHING scriptural.
I come to the conclusion that for Christ to BE the only begotten Son of God scripture MUST state it plainly. If Christ were created scripture likewise MUST state it but because it does not I follow what scripture does state.
Since you raise the issue of Abraham my third propositions is:
Abraham begot his descendants. . . but he did not create them.
This is a straightforward statement.
[quote:dd7c9]Now, as PROOF of my understanding;
Hebrews 1:1
1God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2Hath 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;
3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express
image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
4Being
made so much better than the angels, as he hath
by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
5For unto which of the angels said he at any time,
Thou art my Son,
this day have I begotten thee? And again,
I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
6And again, when he bringeth in the
firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
7And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
8But unto
the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
9Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Now, 'twist THESE words around'.
