They begin with the assumption that God is only One person. Yahchristian and Oneness Pentecostals to name a couple. So here is my question, did God beget himself? If He does this would mean that Yeshua becomes his own father, which destroys the notion that the Father and Son are distinct persons since you would have that they are one and the same person.
Furthermore, the hidden assumption underlying this argument is the "ASSUMPTION" of your own conclusion: that God is only (and can only be) ONE person. The "FACT" is all sons bear the distinguishing nature of their fathers. The inspired authors of scripture applied that bluntly obvious truth used in an idiom to convey the shared nature of the Father and the Son. In fact, it was for the very crime of claiming to be THE SON OF GOD that Christ was executed for blasphemy. Obviously, the Jews understood their own language better than we do.
The Bible is extremely clear in declaring that the Father begat the Son. John 3:16, 1 John 4:9 to name a couple.
IN GOD THE SON,
james
Furthermore, the hidden assumption underlying this argument is the "ASSUMPTION" of your own conclusion: that God is only (and can only be) ONE person. The "FACT" is all sons bear the distinguishing nature of their fathers. The inspired authors of scripture applied that bluntly obvious truth used in an idiom to convey the shared nature of the Father and the Son. In fact, it was for the very crime of claiming to be THE SON OF GOD that Christ was executed for blasphemy. Obviously, the Jews understood their own language better than we do.
The Bible is extremely clear in declaring that the Father begat the Son. John 3:16, 1 John 4:9 to name a couple.
IN GOD THE SON,
james