Tag: eternal sonship
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Eternal Sonship, Incarnational Sonship, Church History and Apologetics
Donald Macleod asks, “Granting, however, that there is a real personal distinction between the Father and the Son, is the sonship eternal?” (Macleod 127)
The answer to the question is “Yes”. Those who are new to doctrinal discussions concerning the Trinity and Jesus Christ may sometimes find it difficult at first to understand how Jesus, the Son of God, has always been the Son. The issue is by no means a new one.
…It was the rise of Arianism that forced the issue into prominence, because it called in question not so much the sonship of Christ as his eternal