Doesn't matter. What I want to know is if you agree with what I said.
Do you believe Jesus can be both God, who has no beginning and no end, and a begotten Son, at the same time, with both statements being true?
In your attempt to establish that Jesus did not have an equally eternal existence with the Father as God you have erroneously defined “only begotten” as “conceived ” vs. “highly favored”. "Only" begotten translates from monogenes.
μονογενής [monogenes /mon•og•en•ace/] translates as “only begotten” six times, “only” twice, and “only child” once. 1 single of its kind, only. 1a used of only sons or daughters (viewed in relation to their parents). 1b used of Christ, denotes the only begotten son of God.{Strong, James: The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible}
μονογενής (monogenēs), ές (es): adj.; unique, only, one and only, i.e., one of a kind: (many versions) only begotten {Swanson, James: Dictionary of Biblical Languages With Semantic Domains}
μονογενής, unique: {Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains:}
Used in the following verses.
Jn 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jn 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The
only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Jn 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Lk 7:12 And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the
only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her.
Lk 8:42 for he had an
only daughter about twelve years of age, and she was dying.
Lk 9:38 Suddenly a man from the multitude cried out, saying, “Teacher, I implore You, look on my son, for he is
my only child.
1Jn 4:9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His
only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
Heb 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his
only begotten son,
“Begotten” denotes unique, blessed, and favored in relation to their parents. It does not at all mean conceived. This is evident by Heb 11:17. Most know that Abraham fathered Ismael and Isaac, but he also fathered six other sons evident by the following verses.
Ge 25:1-2Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 2 And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
1 Ch 1:32 Now the sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine, were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah…
We conclude from scripture that Abraham had eight sons, therefore one has to ask why did the author of Hebrews identify Isaac as Abrahams only begotten son if the meaning of begotten is to conceive or father children? John’s word marks the relation to the Father as unique, stating the fact in itself. Μονογενής ‘only begotten’ distinguishes between Christ as the only Son, and the many children (τέκνα) of God; and further, in that the only Son did not ‘become’ (γενέσθαι) such by receiving power, by adoption, or by moral generation, but ‘was’ (ἦν) such in the beginning with God.
The confusion lies in the translation, where the translated words are so similar that one naturally assumes that it is the same word in different forms.
γεννάω [gennao] translates as “begat” 49 times, “be born” 39 times, “bear” twice, “gender” twice, “bring forth” once, “be delivered” once, and translated miscellaneously three times. 1 of men who fathered children. 1a to be born. 1b to be begotten. 1b1 of women giving birth to children. {Strong, James: The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible}
“Gennao” is translated as “begot” in the opening of Matthew where the lineage of Jesus through Joseph is recorded. It is also used in Hebrews 1:5 and translated as “begotten”, this is a hard verse to reconcile with the rest of Hebrews especially the first chapter where the author is establishing the eternal deity of Jesus. There are different schools of thought on this, some say begotten refers to His birth, His resurrection or His ascension.
I believe Paul wrote Hebrews, so looking into other writings of Paul we find in Acts 13:28, Paul quoting Psalms in reference to the resurrection, and not the incarnation, therefore Heb 1:5 does not undermine the eternal deity of Jesus Christ.
I believe the erroneous definition given to “only begotten” is no accident. Any first year seminary student would have figured it out.
The Bible was translated into English by professionals who followed the rules. What they produced in English varies depending on version and translation because that’s the nature of translating a language. They have to translate based on an in-depth understanding of their culture, their language, while attempting to create a cohesive text free from contradictions that capture the author's intended message.
On the matter of God, one would refer to how God revealed Himself in the Old Testament in order to accurately interpret the New Testament.
First off, there is no Trinity in the Old Testament. There isn't even a point of reference for it as Jesus confirmed in Mark 12:29-30.
In the Old Testament God, who cannot lie, is identified like this:
Numbers 23
19God is not a man, that He should lie,
or a son of man, that He should change His mind.
Does He speak and not act?
Does He promise and not fulfill?
Deuteronomy 4
35You were shown these things so that you would know that the
LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.
Deuteronomy 6
4Hear, O Israel: The
LORD our God, the LORD is One.
Jeremiah 10
10But the
LORD is the true God;
He is
the living God and eternal King.
The earth quakes at His wrath,
and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
Malachi 2
10Do we not all have
one Father? Did not
one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
If you can't accept this fundamental truth, you have completely missed the point. You don't know who God is; I am sure.
We can file this under the fallacy of appealing to anything that sticks.
Why are you dancing around the topic. The topic is Titus 2:13, 2 Pe 1:1 and John 20:28. Prove my point false using the original language and grammatical rules. It should be easy for you. Just look at the back of your hand. Otherwise it stands.
Plus all that you posted above agrees with the Trinity.
And it a real bad idea to argue that the Trinity is not found in the Bible, when the word Bible is not found in the Bible.