{"id":7391,"date":"2023-03-21T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2023-03-21T09:16:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T14:16:54","slug":"the-son-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7391","title":{"rendered":"The Son of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Yet another meditation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a &#8220;son&#8221; as one created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a &#8220;son&#8221; as one inferior, stupid, or foolish &#8211; as a young child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather, a son as on of the <em>same nature, dignity, and lineage as his<\/em> father.&nbsp; A son who is loyal and faithful and loves his kinsmen and does all things right and good for the family.&nbsp; A true son is loved by his father above all others (servants, kinsmen, angels).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A son retains all the innate characteristics of his father (deity in this case!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE Son of God is one who is of the same &#8220;kind&#8221; of&nbsp; &#8220;nature&#8221; as His Father.&nbsp; He, like the Father, is <em>divine<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp; He, like the Father, is <em>eternal<\/em>. &nbsp;He, like the Father is <em>omniscient<\/em>, <em>omnipresent<\/em>, and eternal.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don&#8217;t know the extent to which he limited Himself in the exercise of these attributes when He took human flesh upon himself and became man.&nbsp; But He did refrain from exercising and displaying His divine attributes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a son, he submitted to his father&#8217;s will.\u00a0 As God, the Son, He did so perfectly, pleasing the Father and successfully won our salvation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you follow a god other than this Triune God of the Scriptures which the Church has preached down through the centuries and affirmed in the creeds, you are an idolater, a fool, or a heretic (or all of the above).  You may be following the god of the Mormons or Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses or Wierville&#8217;s Way &#8211; all false teachers &#8211; liars and anti-Christs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get it right and get tight with Him and His people.  Worship with them the one, true, triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 March, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Yet another meditation) Not a &#8220;son&#8221; as one created. Not a &#8220;son&#8221; as one inferior, stupid, or foolish &#8211; as a young child. Rather, a son as on of the same nature, dignity, and lineage as his father.&nbsp; A son who is loyal and faithful and loves his kinsmen and does all things right and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7395,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions\/7395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}