According to Collins English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the word begotten is the past participle of the word beget, which means to have a child or to cause something to happen or be created. For example, those with human flesh beget human babies, birds beget little birds in a nest, and a beaver begets little beavers in a dam.
Every species will beget a different kind of baby, and people can also beget things figuratively, such as grace, The word begotten is three syllables — be-got-ten, and the pronunciation of begotten is. This specific relationship is also used to refer to the Lord Jesus Christ as the only Son of the covenant. There are numerous different languages that contain words meaning begotten. In looking at this list of translations of begotten from Word Sense , you may notice that some of these words look and sound a lot like the word begotten.
These are called cognates, which are often formed when two words have the same root or language of origin. According to STR, the term begotten comes from the Greek word meaning monogenes. In the English language, there are many different words that a person could use in place of the word begotten. If Jesus was begotten, then he is a created being. Therefore, he cannot be God. Many Christians are unequipped to address this challenge primarily because it trades on the definition of a Greek word.
However, once you understand the definition of the Greek word in play, the challenge evaporates. Moreover, the emphasis was on the specific relationship, not the physical begetting itself. The Father is of the same essence as the Son. The Son is not something other than the Father.
They are the same. They are both God. They share a single essence. It may be difficult for us to comprehend fully the Father begetting the Son. Here is an illustration that might help: You have a fireplace with two logs in it. You light one of the logs on fire. Soon, both logs are lit; you have a fire going. Separate the logs. You still have the same fire, but it is in two places. Put them back together; you still have the same fire with two logs together. When you separated the logs, you did not remove fire from the first log.
The first log gave fire to the second log but it did not lose fire to give fire to the second log. Now both logs have the same fire. The fire gives off light. This light does not take away from the fire. It is from the fire. Without light, there is no fire and without the fire, there is no light. The light comes from the fire but is part of the fire; they are one.
There is no time when the fire did not give off light. The light was there from the beginning. The Father begat the Son but they are both God. One God. Separate persons. The early Church Fathers understood Koine Greek much better than any modern scholar. Here is part of the Nicene Creed :. They understood monogenes to mean begotten. They understood the Son to be eternally begotten.
They recognized that to be begotten does not mean to be made or born as we know it. They knew that the Son was one with the Father. In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost: the Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son. The Westminster Confession was written in In it, the writers described the Trinity and the relationship among the Persons of the Godhead.
The Confession explains that the Father is unbegotten and not proceeding. They understood that only the Son was begotten and only the Spirit proceeds. They also understood that these things occurred in eternity. The Father is the deity subsisting in the prime, unoriginated and most absolute manner, or the deity in its direct existence.
Jonathan Edwards is the most prominent thinking preacher in American history. He was a pastor in Connecticut in the 18 th century. Here Edwards makes out what it means for the Son to be begotten from the Father. The Father is unoriginated and prime. He is the direct existence of God Himself. But it is more probable that our misunderstanding of monogenes over the past years has clouded our understanding of something God intended for us to know about Him, something that the Church had known for the first centuries of her existence: that Jesus is begotten of God, which teaches us of the beautiful Relationship between the Father and the Son and the shared Nature of the Persons of the Trinity.
Let me start by saying begotten is the past participle of beget. Beget has two meanings. To procreate as the father of a child: SIRE 2. It is in the second meaning God caused a part of himself to be brought forth and was called his only begotten Son. Read Proverbs God has many sons as the angels in heaven: Job who were created, but Jesus is the only Son who was directly brought forth out of God.
At his trial when Pilate said to Jesus: Art thou a king then? Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice understanding this saying John Jesus also said to the Jews Ye are from beneath, I am from above, Ye are of this world, I am not of this world. If you wish to discuss anything further my email address is below. Yes, Gloria!
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