Studies in the Person And Work of Jesus Christ: Chapter One

Chapter One:  The Eternal Son of God

R1  The revelation . . . it is a (divine) revelation of Divine Sonship.

Eternal Fathership demands Eternal Sonship.

Q1      What groups deny the diety of Christ?
        Mormons, Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnessess

Father is greater than Son.  
Q2     How does this square with the Son being co-equal with the Father?
        (priority not superiority)  
“Greater” has reference to authority and not character

Sonship implies equality and “identity of nature”

Correlative and simultaneous—one substance

R2 & D1    

Q3    Why is it important that the idea of “by birth is not associated with the Eternal Son?”  Consider these  Q and A’s from WSC
WSC
Q16:  Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?  
A16:  The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity;[1] all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.[2]  

1.  Gen. 1:28; 2:16-17
2.  Rom. 5:18

Q21:  Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?
 A21:  The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ,[1] who, being the eternal Son of God, became man,[2] and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person,[3] for ever.[4]  

1.  I Tim. 2:5
2.  John 1:14
3.  Rom. 9:5
4.  Heb. 7:24
 
Q22: How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
A22: Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body,[1] and a reasonable soul,[2] being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her,[3] yet without sin.[4]  

1.  Heb. 2:14
2.  Matt. 26:38
3.  Luke 1:31, 35
4.  Heb. 7:26

The Son of God is the First Born Son
    Before all creation
    Firstborn of Mary
    Firstborn of the Resurrection

The Son of God is both the Word and the Son

D2

Word Only
--to think of Christ merely as the Word might suggest an impersonal faculty in God.

Son Only
--to think of Him only as the Son might limit us to the conception of a created being

We must leave no room for either error.

John 1:1
    When:  in the beginning
    Where:  with God
    Who:  WAS God!

Summary Statement Chapter One:  bottom pg 14:  If in the Godhead there is no filiation, neither is there paternity; if there is not a Divine and Eternal Son, neither is there a Divine and Eternal Father.  

R3  All of pg 15.  (This is the impact of the Summary on us!)