Why does it mean to say that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God?

Jesus was the only person to be born of a mortal mother, Mary, and an immortal father, God the Father. That is why Jesus is called the Only Begotten Son of God. From His Father, He inherited divine powers (see John 10:17–18). The mortal life of Jesus Christ began when He was born in Bethlehem.

What is the biblical definition of begotten?

: brought into existence by or as if by a parent “He didn’t send his only begotten son through a whirlwind …”—

What does it mean that Jesus is God’s Only Begotten Son?

Question: “What does it mean that Jesus is God’s only begotten son?”. Answer: The phrase “only begotten Son” occurs in John 3:16, which reads in the King James Version as, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”.

Why don’t people believe Jesus is the Son of God?

People do not want to believe Jesus said this because they do not believe He is God. The expression “Son of God” was a phrase that meant Jesus was God. It did not mean that Jesus was God’s offspring (compare John 10:33 with 10:36) or that He was a child of God.

Why did John use monogenes to promote Jesus as the son?

John was primarily concerned with demonstrating that Jesus is the Son of God ( John 20:31 ), and he uses monogenes to highlight Jesus as uniquely God’s Son—sharing the same divine nature as God—as opposed to believers who are God’s sons and daughters by adoption ( Ephesians 1:5 ). Jesus is God’s “one and only” Son.

Was Jesus created or begotten?

They see the word “begotten” and say that Jesus is a created being because only someone who had a beginning in time can be “begotten.” What this fails to note is that “begotten” is an English translation of a Greek word. As such, we have to look at the original meaning of the Greek word, not transfer English meanings into the text.