Evidence for God from Science

Quoted from AMG’s The Complete Word Study Dictionary

Strongs Number 3439

μονογενής

monogenēs; gen. monogenoús, masc.-fem., neut. monogenón, from mónos (3441), only, and génos (1085), stock. Unique, one of a kind, one and only.

The only one of the family (Luke 7:12 referring to the only son of his mother; Luke 8:42, the daughter of Jairus; Luke 9:38, the demoniac boy).

John alone uses monogenēs to describe the relation of Jesus to God the Father, presenting Him as the unique one, the only one (mónos) of a class or kind (génos), in the discussion of the relationship of the Son to the Father (John1:14, John1:18; John 3:16, John 3:18; 1John 4:9).

Génos, from which genḗs in monogenēs is derived, means race, stock, family, class or kind, and génō comes from gínomai (1096), become, as in John1:14, "and the Word became [egéneto] flesh." This is in distinction from gennáō (1080), to beget, engender or create. The noun from gennáō is génnēma (1081), the result of birth. So then, the word means one of a kind or unique.

There are two schools of thought regarding the meaning of this term. The first view, which began with Origen, teaches that Christ's unique Sonship and His generation by the Father are eternal being predicated of Him in respect to His participation in the Godhead.

Although monogenḗs was traditionally cited in proof of this explanation, modern proponents, recognizing the mistaken identification of genḗs as a derivative of gennáō instead of génos, understand the word to be descriptive of the kind of Sonship Christ possesses and not of the process establishing such a relationship. This would serve to distinguish the Sonship of Christ to God from that spoken of other beings, e.g., Adam (Luke 3:28), angels (Job 1:6), or believers (John1:12).

The last view teaches that Christ's unique Sonship and generation by the Father are predicated of Him in respect to the incarnation. The proponents of this interpretation unequivocally affirm the triune nature of the Godhead and Christ's deity teaching that it is the word lógos (3056), Word, which designates His personage within the Godhead. Christ's Sonship expresses an economical relationship between the Word and the Father assumed via the incarnation.

This stands in fulfillment of OT prophecies which identify Christ as both human, descending from David, and divine, originating from God. Like David and the other kings descending from him, Christ is the Son of God by position (2 Sam 7:14), but unlike them and because of His divine nature, He is par excellence the Son of God by nature (Psalms 2:7; Heb 1:5). Thus the appellation refers to the incarnate Word, God made flesh, not simply the preincarnate Word.

Therefore, monogenēs can be held as syn. with the God-Man. Jesus was the only such one ever, in distinction with the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Triune God.

He is never called téknon Theoú (téknon [5043], child; Theoú [2316], of God) as the believers are (John1:12; John11:52; 1 John3:1-2, 1 John3:10; 1 John5:2). In John5:18, Jesus called God His very own (ídion [2398]) Father. To Jesus, God was not a Father as He is to us. See John 20:17. He never spoke of God as the common Father of Him and believers. The term monogenḗs also occurs in Heb 11:17.

1stjohn0666 wrote:I do not read John 1:1 "In the beginning was the son, and the son was with God, and the son was God"
I read John 1:1 "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God" I don't capitalize "word" to denote a person. John 1 and Gen 1 are in harmony and without contradiction.
God spoke in the beginning of Genesis, thus the word is the beginning of John.
Jesus had two others we know of at the crucifixion.
Jesus was born of a virgin birth.

1stjohn0666 wrote:HS is God in action

1stjohn0666 wrote:I don't subscribe to the "trinity theory"

1stjohn0666 wrote: = God in action

1stjohn0666 wrote:= God in action

1stjohn0666 wrote:The Father gave the sheep to Jesus, which Jesus gives to his God and Father "so that God can be all in all" We are saved "through" the blood of Christ.

Bible Question:Does a person have to believe the doctrine of the Trinity in order to be saved? Can a person only believe that Jesus is the Lord and Savior and the Son of God, but not necessarily God and be saved? And in the Old Testament do you think it is God the Father only who speaks? If so, did the Jews at that time only know part of God?

Bible Answer: Jesus makes the following surprise statement in John 8:24,
Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins. John 8:24 (NAS95S)

The Greek words that are translated as "I AM" are EGO EIMI. Note that the word "He" is not in the Greek text. Therefore, the word "He" should be deleted in the passage and the verse should read as follows,
Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins. John 8:24 (NLT)

Jesus declared that He was and is the "I AM" of the Old Testament (Exodus 3:14). Thirty four verses later Jesus repeated His statement in a different way,
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” John 8:58 (NAS95S)

The Greek words that are translated as "I AM" in verse 58 are again EGO EIMI. Verse 58 reveals that Jesus taught that He was God. The context of John 7 and 8 also confirms that Jesus declared that He was God. So when Jesus said in the first passage that one must believe that "I AM," He was declaring that we must believe that Jesus is God in order to be a Christian - to go to heaven.