Proclaimer, you used this link https://www.ntgreek.org/answers/answer-frame-john1_1.htm to defend your understanding of John 1:1c but that link does not defend your position at all. This is what the writer of that’s summation is proclaiming:

“…the word ‘God’ is used first in the sentence actually shows some emphasis that this Logos (Word) was…[Read more]

When reading scripture, we need to be more sophisticated and to look carefully at the detail. This matters.

Spoken about the Son, the only begotten God:

“In the beginning, O Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth,

and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

11They will perish, but You remain;

they will all wear out like a g…[Read more]

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

It is not a title from the book of Genesis, although it could have been.

Apparently God created the heavens…. (first)

Is this really the case when we consider verse 2 from the human point of view?

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And the earth was formless and empty; and darkness covered the face of the abyss. And…[Read more]

Rev 21:23 And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Read it carefully. It is not saying that the earth will have no sun or moon. Rather that God is light and thus the light is probably a candle compared to the light of God. It is not necessary for light like…[Read more]

How about this, the “light” was the glory of God on day one as it entered the dimension of creation. The sun did not appear until day four when it was created.

Before the closing of Day 1, God created the heavens and the earth. Day 4 has the sun, moon, and stars in the vault. Not in the universe.

Berean, good post!

Proclaimer said: “The sun was already created as it is part of the universe. What happens on Day 4, is that they appear in the vault.”

How about this, the “light” was the glory of God on day one as it entered the dimension of creation. The sun did not appear until day four when it was created.

Rev 21:23 And the city has no need of the sun or of…[Read more]

Proclaimer

We as children of God, we participate by faith in the spiritual character of God in Christ (participant of the divine nature)

but what we must know is that Christ is of divine and human nature and, in as an only begotten Son of God he possesses all the divine attributes of his Father: holiness, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence…[Read more]

A tree is part of creation. Is it divine?

Proclaimer,

I would say the divine order is more like this:

God the Father  → His only begotten Son who is the only begotten God  → Creation

Mike,

You said: “I agree that Jesus is “the only of his kind”, but I wouldn’t try to build any doctrines around the translation “only-begotten” – as if it means Jesus literally spawned from the very loins of the Father.”

In other words, you don’t believe that Jesus is the only Son of God in the highest sense of the word, as if he is a Son in th…[Read more]

Proclaimer,

You said “John 1:18 calls Jesus the begotten God. Therefore he must be God Almighty right?”

John 1:18 NASB 1995 doesn’t merely call Jesus the begotten God but the ONLY begotten God.  Therefore being the only begotten God would make him the only Son (in the highest sense) of the God who begat him. As the Son of God, he does the will…[Read more]

Yes Berean.

While we have in part, he has in full.

He was also the only begotten. The first born.

While we are made by natural process of God and through the logos, we receive a second birth. He even calls us brothers.

All things were made through the logos and without it, nothing was made. The logos became flesh. And the Word of God will…[Read more]

Proclaimer,

As far as I understand, the divine nature of God the Father, his eternal substance and power, his eternal life, all his divine attributes, ALL OF THIS WAS GIVEN TO THE SON WHEN HE WAS BEGOTTEN FROM THE FATHER IN ETERNITY PAST.
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Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear THE VOICE OF THE…[Read more]

How long was each day in Genesis 1 AFTER the sun was made (or allowed to shine through)?

Already answered this despite not being given the question.

A day to the LORD is a long period of time compared to our day. But in actual fact it can be any length he desires. And there is nothing in scripture that states that God is dictated to by days of an…[Read more]

Exodus 20:11… For in six days the LORD made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them…

QUESTION THAT HAS NEVER BEEN ANSWERED BY PROCLAIMER:

You claim that the heaven and earth are excluded from the things God made in six days.  God says that the heaven and earth are included in those things He made in six days.

Already answe…[Read more]