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Amazing confession! Jesus Christ, God's Son! With the church of all ages we confess in our Apostolic Creed that Jesus is the Son of God. After declaring that we believe in God, our Father, the 'Almighty Creator, we confess our faith in Jesus, Who is the Christ. Concerning this Jesus we make the conf
The angel explains this holy mystery to Mary by saying that the Holy Ghost will come upon her, and the power of the Highest will overshadow her; therefore, that Holy Thing which will be born of her will be called the Son of God. The Son of God remains God, but takes on our human nature by being born
It has the glory, power, majesty and strength of it. And it is going to come and smash the kingdoms of this world and establish a kingdom that shall have no end. Even in a passage like this, the Word of God indirectly, already in the Old Testament, implies that there is something about our Lord
The more we think about this holy conception and birth with the Holy Scriptures before us, the more we marvel at the mystery of Bethlehem. Scripture says, "Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." Our Catechism responds to that by saying, "God's ete
It is rather striking, in light of this expression, that the Bible also speaks of other sons of God. Thus, for example, the nation of Israel in the Old Testament is more than once called God's son. This is true in Exodus 4:22: "And thou (Moses) shall say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is
Christ, the Son, is merely a holy man, supernaturally conceived and born, to reveal a new law, the Fathers will. He was crowned with divine glory after He fulfilled His mission in the world.
For if he were the Christ, they knew he must be the Son of God, and therefore God in his divine nature, they rejected Jesus as the Son of God. Now in Matthew 16, our blessed Lord had sought to bring his disciples to a clear and decided recognition of his divine sonship by asking them two-pointed
Christ had been teaching that He was the Son of God (36): “I and my Father are one” (30). The Jews rightly understood Him to be claiming Deity (33) and so they are about to stone him (31). Jesus uses two arguments against them. First, He states that His good works sustain His claim (32). Second, He
It is God who gave Him this exalted position above Abraham; according to His divine nature He is God. Here Jesus thus again declares that He is the Son of God, as He does throughout the book. Now these Jews also claim the great honor of being children of this the true God. But they hate Jesus, the