JESUS CHRIST IS THE REVEALER OF REGENERATION-Part 6

Today, There are some Theologians, Who believe in The Divine Trinity, but have some strange views about the names of Father and Son.

They emphasize expressions such as,''Eternal Generation,'' and '' Eternal Son-ship, which should never be used. They maintain that these experiences, involve the serious error, that, in some way,
The Deity of The Son is derived, or, is communicated from The Father, and is, therefore, of subordinate character.
They also maintain that Theologians of the past, failing to see that word ''Begotten,'' refers to Jesus
Christ, as One born of the virgin, in time, tried to escape the difficulty by inventing non-scriptural phrases of ''Eternal Generation,'' and ''Eternal Son-Ship''.

Now, the answers to these terms, are very simple, to The Bible Student. The word, ''Generation'' means individuals, having equal status, at the same time. This simply means that both Father and Son, have always been Co-Equal and Co-Eternal.

Now, Get this thought; THERE NEVER WAS A TIME, WHEN THE THOUGHT OF FATHER AND SON, WAS NOT, IN THE MIND OF GOD.
God knows Future, Present, and Past, all at once;
He is one mind--Job 23;13-''But he is in one mind, and who can turn him/ and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.''

Now, There is no succession in God's knowledge and understanding, but there is, in Man's.
God's knowledge is from Eternity; He is before and above Time.
God knows all things by one act of intuition; and there is no division in His knowledge.

God's name of Father was not revealed until there was a Divine Person on Earth, as Man, to declare Him--
John 1;18-''No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.''

The Son of God, as The Divine Person, in manhood, spoke of The Glory, He had with The Father;
Before The Foundation of The World--
John 17;5, 24-''And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.''
The Glory, which Jesus had with the Father, before the foundation of The World, was a glory proper to His Eternal Person.

He descended from the Glory, which he had with the Father, for the purpose of completing the work given to Him, to perform.
A Divine Person couldn't remain in humiliation;
thus after finishing the work, the Father sent Him to do, He ascended back, to The Father.

He is now glorified, as man, with the Father, and the Glory, which He has with the Father, is the same Glory, He had with Him, BEFORE THE WORLD WAS.

The Deity of Jesus Christ is asserted in Hebrews, chapter One. It is in Manhood, that God spoke by Jesus Christ.
And, as man, He set Himself down, on the Right Hand of the Majesty on High.

As man, God addressed Him, as His Son.
As man, He was brought into The Habitable World as Firstborn, and worshipped by all God's Angels.
As man, He will have The Millennial Throne and Scepter.

But this man is God, and is addressed as God;
His Deity is unquestionable.

The subject of Hebrews 1;5-13, is The Greatness and Deity of the Messiah, God's Anointed Man, as prophesied, in Old Testament Scriptures.

Let's now consider the main objections, to the statement of Christ's Eternal Son-ship.

Number 1-Some take the proposition, that the 2nd Person, of The Trinity, is known to us, as having become man, and bearing the titles, ''Son of Man,'' ''Son of God''.
They assert that The Bible speaks of The Eternal Spirit [Heb. 9;14], but that doesn't justify the position of those, Who speak of Christ, as The Eternal Son.

Now, They also state,the fact of advancing such an argument, soon finds difficulty in securing a Scriptural Foundation.
then, They say, the use of the word ''eternal'' in Hebrews contradicts what God has brought in, now, through Christ, and His Death, with what was known as Judaism.

Their argument concludes by stating, ''The Spirit is not a name of relationship like father and son; The Spirit has not been manifested like the Son, or, revealed like the Father. He remains in
His eternal character, as The unseen Spirit, and can therefore, be spoken of as ''Eternal Spirit''.
But The Spirit does not speak of the eternal Father, or the ''eternal Son,'' because the Father and Son are names, which give character as our present knowledge of God. They are names which can be known, only through the incarnation'' [UNQUOTE].

Now, to everyone, who truly believes that Jesus Christ is truly God, as well as, truly Man, His
Word on Manhood and Son-ship is fatal, [which we will see next time.