Originally Posted by Anthony
This doesnt soften the blow at all, to say begotten and not made..the implication is still that of being caused to exist, not having your own self existence..to come into being..This is blasphemous to relegate to The Deity.. The eternal Logos has Just as much self existence and eternity as the father, do you believe the father was begotten too ?


Begottenness describes the personal relationship of the Son to the Father. IT DOES NOT DESCRIBE THE ORIGIN OF THE SON. All three Persons of the Holy Trinity have always existed, but they have always existed in personal relationships to each other. It is NOT as though the Father decided one day that He would beget a Son, and the next day that He would process a Holy Spirit! These three have always existed in the divine Unity; but again, they have existed in relationship to one another, the Son begotten of the Father, the Spirit proceeding from the Father & the Son. They are not individual beings which can be separated from each other, as though the Father exists apart from the Son, or the Son apart from the Father, or the Spirit apart from either.

Kyle

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.