Everybody has some kind of idea about God.
Now in Christian theology there are in use extra Biblical terms used to explain what are regarded by Christians as Biblical concepts.
The Trinity is the name of the explanation that God has been revealed as three Persons: God the Father, Son of God and the Holy Spirit.
The eternal Son is the idea that the Son of God was always the Son and as so was the Son prior to the incarnation.
The concept of eternal generation of the Son from God the Father is an explanation claimed to be necessary for the Trinity and eternal Son concepts to be true.
Yet the latter concept of eternal generation is in fact dependant on the other two concepts being believed prior to it. Not the other way around.
From the New Testament we know that the three persons, the Father (John 17:3, 11) and the Son of God (John 5:18; John 20:28) and the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:4-5) are each identified as God.
Now it was Dr. Walter Martin's arguments in his book Kingdom of the Cults against teaching of the eternal Son which caused me to look at the concept of the Son of God being the eternal Son. I concluded that the concept was to be believed (Isaiah 9:6; Proverbs 30:4 and 1 John 4:9).
Now much later in regards to the concept of eternal generation, looking at the Biblical use of the term "begotten" I rejected that concept as anti-Biblical (Psalm 2:7; Acts 13:33).
Now generally Christians who reject the concept of eternal generation also reject the idea of Son of God being the eternal Son prior to the incarnation and resurrection. But do not reject the Trinity, the three Persons being God, the Word and the Holy Spirit. And now being the Father, (the now) eternal Son (Hebrews 13:8) and the Holy Spirit - since the incarnation and the bodily resurrection of the Son of God.
Now in Christian theology there are in use extra Biblical terms used to explain what are regarded by Christians as Biblical concepts.
The Trinity is the name of the explanation that God has been revealed as three Persons: God the Father, Son of God and the Holy Spirit.
The eternal Son is the idea that the Son of God was always the Son and as so was the Son prior to the incarnation.
The concept of eternal generation of the Son from God the Father is an explanation claimed to be necessary for the Trinity and eternal Son concepts to be true.
Yet the latter concept of eternal generation is in fact dependant on the other two concepts being believed prior to it. Not the other way around.
From the New Testament we know that the three persons, the Father (John 17:3, 11) and the Son of God (John 5:18; John 20:28) and the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:4-5) are each identified as God.
Now it was Dr. Walter Martin's arguments in his book Kingdom of the Cults against teaching of the eternal Son which caused me to look at the concept of the Son of God being the eternal Son. I concluded that the concept was to be believed (Isaiah 9:6; Proverbs 30:4 and 1 John 4:9).
Now much later in regards to the concept of eternal generation, looking at the Biblical use of the term "begotten" I rejected that concept as anti-Biblical (Psalm 2:7; Acts 13:33).
Now generally Christians who reject the concept of eternal generation also reject the idea of Son of God being the eternal Son prior to the incarnation and resurrection. But do not reject the Trinity, the three Persons being God, the Word and the Holy Spirit. And now being the Father, (the now) eternal Son (Hebrews 13:8) and the Holy Spirit - since the incarnation and the bodily resurrection of the Son of God.
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