Week 7 - the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father;
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· 11 viewsplace in the trinity. Access to the Father through son - This is week 1 or 2 weeks exploring the beginning of John’s first chapter - What does it mean that God has always been eternal? - What does it mean that the person of the word has always been eternal?
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1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognise him.
11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
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For me this is one of those passages which bring me much life.
I’ve never been very good at foreign languages, and I was told that I’d have to study New Testament Greek if I was to study my particular course in Cambrigde.
It was a daunting prospect, and I can remember sitting anxiously in a lecturehall of 60 other students. All of us ready for our first lecture in Greek.
And I was ready to be bored out of my skull. Yeah, considering I’m usually up for trying new things, this was one thing I knew I would fail. Never go into a situation like that. Of course, this was reading the Bible in Greek. Mike Thompson, our lecturer opened his copy of Greek New Testament and read these words.
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3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.