What Does the Bible Say About God and Jesus? - Conclusion of How the "Only-Begotten Son"?

The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, edited by Gerhard Kittel says:  " [Mo-no-ge-nes'] means of sole descent,' i.e., without brothers or sisters." This book also states that at John 1:18; 3:16, 18;  and John 4:9,  "the relation of Jesus is not just compared to that of an only child to its father. It is the relation of an only-begotten child to the Father." 

So, Jesus, the only-begotten Son, had a beginning to his life.  And Almighty God can rightly be called his Begetter of Father, in the same sense that an earthly father, just Abraham begets a son. (Hebrews 11:17) Hence, when the Bible speaks of God as the "Father" of Jesus, it means what it says-that they are two separate individuals.  God is the senior.  Jesus is the junior-in time, position, power, and knowledge. 

When one considers that Jesus was not the only spirit son of God created in the heaven, it became evident why the term "only-begotten Son" was used in his case.  Countless other created spirit beings, angels, are also the term "sons of God," in the same sense that Adam was, because their life-force originated with Jehovah God, the Fountain, or Source of life. (Job 38:7; Psalm 36:9; Luke 3:38) But these were all created through the "only-begotten Son," who was the only one directly begotten God. - COLOSSIANS 1:15-17.

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