Q) What does begotten son mean?
A) When the Bible refers to Jesus as the begotten son, it means that Jesus is the biological birth son of God. Jesus was born, and His mother was impregnated by God. Begotten means procreate. So I begat my daughter. My parents begat me.
Jesus was the only begotten son of God. God has children two ways.
1) Jesus is the only begotten son of God, because nobody else in Gods family were born by means of impregnation the way Jesus was.
2) Adoption – which is the case for all believers. We are adopted into Gods family and considered sons and daughters, the way an orphan is adopted into a family, comes from the outside, but ends up on the inside with just as much love and family rights as a biological child.
Ephesians 1:4–5 – 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
1 John 3:1-2 – See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Romans 8:14–17 14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
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