How can God Have a Baby?
Muslims Question how Jesus can be Begotten
of God.
"How Can God Have a Baby?"
When people have studied the Bible and then challenge our faith, we need to see
if our faith actually lines up with the Bible.
Once we examine God's usage of the term 'begotten', we see promotions; not a
baby.
Paul begat children by being a spiritual father: "For though ye have ten
thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ
Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel." (1 Corinthians 4:15)
And God is Jesus' Father: "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
grace and truth." (John 1:14); "For God so loved the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son ..." (John 3:16)
Through Jesus, we are also begotten: "In this was manifested the love of God
toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we
might live through him." (1 John 4:9); "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is
the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him
also that is begotten of him." (1 John 5:1)
And God is our Father, too: "Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ." (Philemon 1:3)
Jesus was already a Son: "The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a
dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved
Son; in thee I am well pleased." (Luke 3:22)
However, Jesus wasn't begotten until the day he was made a high priest:
"Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto
him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee." (Hebrews 5:5)
Jesus is the first one begotten: "Jesus Christ, who is ... the first begotten
of the dead ..." (Revelation 1:5)
And we are also begotten by his resurrection: "The Spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then
heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified together." (Romans 8:16-17); "Blessed
and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second
death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall
reign with him a thousand years." (Revelation 20:6)
However, there is a second resurrection: "For in the resurrection they ...
are as the angels of God in heaven." (Matthew 22:30); "God hath fulfilled
the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is
also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten
thee." (Acts 13:33); and "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead" (1 Peter 1:3)
But, Jesus received a more excellent name: "His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew,
but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name
is called The Word of God." (Revelation 19:12-13)
"Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance
obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he
at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will
be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in
the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God
worship him." (Hebrews 1:4-6)
Though our faith may, sometimes, be in error, the error is on our part - not
God's.
"Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not
by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither
as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock." (1
Peter 5:2-3)
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