"...does the statement that Jesus is God's Son mean that there are really two gods? Is Christianity then polytheistic, as Jews and Muslims maintain? Or does the phrase 'Son of God' imply that Jesus, though in a class by himself among created beings, was not personally divine in the same sense as the Father is? In the early church, the Arians held this, and in modern times Unitarians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians and others have taken the same line. Is it right? What does the Bible mean when it calls Jesus the Son of God?
"These questions have puzzled some, but the New Testament does not really leave us in doubt as to how they should be answered. In principle, they were all raised and solved together by the apostle John in the Prologue to his gospel. He was writing, it seems for readers of both Jewish and Greek background. He wrote, he tells us, in order that they might 'believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing...have life in his name' (John 20:31). It is as the Son of God that he presents Jesus throughout the gospel.
"However, John knew that the phrase 'Son of God' was tainted with misleading associations in the minds of his readers. Jewish theology used it as a title for the expected (human) Messiah. Greek mythology told of many 'sons of gods', supermen born of a union between a god and a human woman. In neither cases did the phrase convey the thought of personal deity, in both, indeed it excluded it..."
J I Packer, Knowing God, Ch 5 'God Incarnate'
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (v1-4)
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (v14)
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