Let’s be clear. Scripture explicitly states that Jesus is the son of God and we are sons of God. Jesus even calls us brothers because we are part of the same family as him. God never calls us brothers. To him we are his children. This doesn’t sound like Jesus is God does it?
What does scripture say about who Jesus is. Let’s take a look.
Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Clearly then, we are the same kind of being as Jesus.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.
So both Jesus and us are sons and children of God. We are never brothers to God and God and Jesus are not brothers either. It is written that we will even have the same glorious body as he does.
who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
When we are born from above, we are given a new nature, that is divine nature.
by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature
If not divine nature, then we would still be of the flesh and die in our sins. Instead, we are born again, but we currently remain in a state of flux awaiting our resurrection bodies which will put us at rest and always toward the divine and without sin. Currently we live by divine nature and at other times the flesh nature.
So yes, we know that Jesus was begotten of the Father. So what do you suppose our new birth is?
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come”
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
See. We too are begotten of God.
The difference between redeemed people and Jesus is this. He is the prototype son.
So he is not God as many propose, just as we are not God, even if we have divine nature.
Jesus is the firstborn son among many sons. This is what the Bible teaches.
