The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum The begotten God Heresy

Anthony,

The concept of the "begottenness" of the Son is straight from Scripture: "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth" (John 1:14); "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him" (John 1:18). Here, as in the Nicene Creed, the fundamental matter is this: is the Son of God a created being, or uncreated? To say that the Son of God is "begotten" of the Father is to affirm that He is uncreated, possessing with the Father the same divine essence, and that from all eternity. If one interprets this with referrence to the humanity of the Son, then one attributes to the eternal God an eternal human nature, which is blasphemous. There is no heresy, or Greek mythology, underlying the Nicene Creed, but rather pure scripture truth: the Son of God, who took on a created human nature, is nonetheless the uncreated & eternal Word of the Triune God.