Recently on another thread we looked briefly at a man’s testimony who claims to have had a supernatural revelation of what the Bible means when it says that Christ is ‘begotten’. He claims he was shown that Christ is a created being, an exact duplication of the Father so that the Son inherited all the attributes and knowledge and memory of God. On the face, it seems logical but in fact, it is a significant error. It implies that Christ does not have original, unborrowed life within Himself.
This is central to the gospel, because it is through the blood of Christ, through His original life that we are saved. The reason that an angel couldn’t give his life for us is that no angel has original life within himself to give. All created beings derive their life from the life of God. Not so with Christ. Christ’s life was His own to give. He has voluntarily, willingly given something that only He could give – His own life.
The paradox of this great mystery is that it is through the death of Christ that he was begotten, or born, to the role of mediator and high priest for the human family and for the unfallen worlds.
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2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art] my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
110:4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. Both from Psalms
On a different but related topic, one of the things that we have more or less overlooked in the above passages is that they are set in the context of the final retributive judgments of the apocalypse. They are especially prophetic of the end when the judgments of God become intense and it will become evident that it is through the priesthood of Christ that the remnant is being preserved. It is in this context that the church will see most clearly IMO what is means that Christ is the Son of Man, the begotten of the Father, the redeemer/deliverer of spiritual Israel.
