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6 results for “Eternal generation”
Clear searchBorn, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
Was Christ Begotten at the Resurrection? Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son “This day have I begotten thee” appears to be applied to Christ’s resurrection. Did Jesus become the Son of God when He rose—or does Scripture dis…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…was always spiritual as well as national. Jesus later promised the Twelve that in "the regeneration" they would sit upon twelve thrones, "judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matthew 19:28). The symbolism joins the Messiah's future rule, the twelve apostles, and the twelve trib…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…raised God because not one word of the promised blessing had failed (1 Kings 8:56); later generations discovered that not one word of the threatened judgement was empty either. The same covenantal faithfulness which sent Israel into exile prevented that exile from becoming annihi…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…aining away the plain words of Jesus? Has he mistaken an indispensable means of receiving eternal life for a metaphor? Those are fair questions, and they deserve something better than a reflexive Protestant answer. But they also require us to do what the presentation itself often…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…as its cause. This does not oppose mercy to transformation. The passage continues with regeneration and renewal by the Holy Ghost (Titus 3:5-6). The same love which receives the undeserving refuses to leave them enslaved to hatred. Christian love moves in a recognisable order: G…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…could use the word God of Him. The dispute concerned what those words meant. Was the Son eternally from the Father's own being, or was He the first and greatest creature, brought into existence by the Father's will and then used to create everything else? Arius's own letter to A…
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