Was Jesus Created?
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Was Jesus Created?
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Very disappointed that you equate being begotten to being created and that you deny plain testimony from Mrs. Ellen White.
I think, as far as Christian theology goes, Seventh-Day Adventism has some solid doctrines, particularly on the state of the dead, Sabbath-keeping and abstaining from unclean foods. But on this one topic, I'd have to disagree. I admit; there are some difficult verses, and the majority of them are in the Gospel of John, which if I'm not mistaken is the latest of the Gospels. But regardless, there are some difficulties I'd like to see responses on.
In Mark 10:18 and Luke 18:19, Jesus asks and states, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, save God alone." (If Jesus, in John's Gospel, did not mind proclaiming himself to be divine, why would he have made statements like these in Mark and Luke?)
In John 17:3, Jesus calls the Father the Only true God.
John 14:28, Jesus says the Father is greater than he.
John 20:17, Jesus says he is ascending to his God. How can God have a God? How can God be the God of Himself?
Matthew 24:36, Jesus says that only the Father, and not the son, knows the hour of his return. How can God not be all-knowing?
Revelation 1:1 states that it is "the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him…" How can Jesus be given a revelation if he is God?
Hebrews 4:15 states that Jesus was tempted in all points as we, but James 1:13 says that God cannot be tempted by evil.
1 Corinthians 8:6 states that there is one God, the Father (and even though is describes Christ as an instrument of creation, it does not identify Christ as God)
I came across 2 verses that contradict this video Col.1:15 and Rev.3:14, can you pastor or anyone on the comments explain? Thank's to all.
Til we tackle another topic from the holy book pastor Doug..
May i ask is ur daily devotional that i was receiving for years has come to end?u will never send me/us a freedaily devotional?
Thanks for answering pastor Doug,and i pray that those who were using ur name to make scam didnt win their bad intentions..
God bless.
The idea of being begotten in the life of God is not that Jesus ever did not exist. He was begotten eternally. Genesis 1 explains the beginning of the universe (Space) and of Time. In the beginning, God created what scientists today call the Space-Time Continuum. In other words, Time began when God created the universe. Before the Creation, there was no Time. We call that Eternity.
God is before Time and He is after Time. Time is what we are currently experiencing; Eternity is everything outside of Time. In Eternity, God begat Jesus. In other words, no Time exists in which the Son was not. He has always been and will always be. He was before Time and will be after Time. He is eternal as is the Father. He is the alpha and the omega. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is outside of Time.
Since the Son is eternal, he was begotten, is being begotten and will continue to be begotten forever.
The relationship aspect of begotten is best described by Jesus himself.
I and the Father are one. – John 10:30
If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him. – John 14:7
… no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son…–Matthew 11:27
O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You – John 17:25
…Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are. – John 17:11
…even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You… – John 17:21Understanding the Meaning of Begotten
What it means for the Son to be begotten is not the same as what it means for us to be begotten. When we are begotten, we mean we have been born. The term begotten when applied to the Son is not speaking of birth but of Relationship and Nature: the Nature of the Son and the Relationship between the Son and the Father.
Let’s say a fire is lit. The fire gives off light. This light does not take away from the fire. It is from the fire. Without light, there is no fire and without the fire, there is no light. The light comes from the fire but is part of the fire; they are one. There is no time when the fire did not give off light. The light was there from the beginning.