Originally posted by foudroyant
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In Greek (philosophical) thought to be God is to be unchangeable. So if the Father created the Son then God became Father so is not God given he changed. A simpler explanation is that given there is no beginnings or ends in eternity and God exists in eternity, and the Son was begotten in eternity then the Son had no beginning as we might conceive the idea. However only the Father is understood to be unbegotten, whereas the Son is understood (from scripture) as "begooten not made". An Athanasian type argument is that the Son before being begotten was in potential...
An aside: Given numerous scriptures tell us that the Son made/created all things made/created, it is obvious he was not created! Unless of course one contemplates that the Son created himself!!!
ps: I made a typo in my previous post citing Jn 12:14, it should have been Jn 12:45. Also I made a spelling mistake: hommosius should have been homooúsios.
pss: Sparko just before the big crash of this website had challenged me in asking if I advocated three Gods. Now I have the opportunity to answer, my response is "No', and likewise I do not advocate "one person three modes of existence" as JWs, Christadelphians and others misrepresent the teaching of Trinitarianism. I conform to the majority church and advocate three distinct persons with one mode of existence or if we appeal to the biblical usage of ousia, three hypostases one value/property or three hypostases one physis.
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