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Originally Posted by Iron_Bladder
It's not, the Son is addressed as God (Theos) at hebrews 1:8 and also at John 20:28. How sad that you and the other Oneness folk here argue against the deity of the Son and the fact that the Son as the Son possesses every divine attribute. |
First of all, I'm not oneness; I'm a trinitarian who adheres to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 A.D. (the Orthodox version, not the Roman Catholic/Protestant version). Second, it isn't
as the Son that Jesus is being referred to as God in the quote from the Old Testament. The ONE who became the Son is, in fact, God. What you seem to be missing here is that Jesus is not ONLY the Son. There is more to Jesus than His being the "only begotten Son" of God and the fact that the Son is begotten necessitates that the Son cannot be eternal since the begotten indicates a beginning point. Jesus, as God, is eternal. Jesus, as the Son, had a beginning. And, yes, the Greek word used in
1 Timothy 3:16 is theos!
Of course, what you mentioning
Hebrews 1:8 and
John 20:28 have to do with our discussion of
1 Timothy 3:16, I don't know.
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