In What Way is Jesus the Father’s Son?
Posted 3/13/25
Did the Father have some sort of spiritual sex with an angel? If you believe that, you’re a Mormon.
What is the Father’s spiritual makeup? Is it some form of spiritual DNA? or is it something so wonderful, no man can explain it.
Hebrews 1:3:
Jesus is said to be “The brightness of the Father’s glory.” What is the Father’s glory composed of? It’s the glowing splendor, a light from within radiating out. Jesus is said to be the Light of the World. Paul saw this splendor and fell to the earth trembling. In a moment, what Paul saw and heard, turned a murder of men into an apostle of God. I don’t know exactly what Paul saw, but it scared the pants off of him.
Jesus is said to be the express image of the Father’s person; the expressed image of the Father is to be the counterpart of the Father’s essence or being. Jesus is of the same character or impression of the Father’s substance, a substance that is essential to both the Father as God, and the Son as God. All the likeness of the Original (the Father) became manifest in his Son Jesus; therefore, Jesus is a perfect simile of the Father.
This comparison is a metaphor taken from sealing; a die or seal leaves its full impression, its every part, on the wax to which the die or seal was applied. It’s an inherent splendor.
Although the Son of God proceeded from the Father, and is of the same essence, yet he is a distinct Person from the Father. The splendor of the sun, though of the same essence, is distinct from the sun itself, though each is essential to the other.
And Jesus is said to “Uphold all things by the word of his power.” An astonishing description of the infinitely energetic and all-pervading power of God. Jesus spoke and all things came into being. He speaks and all things are sustained. The Hebrews to whom this was written, would fully understand that the apostle believed Jesus Christ is truly God.
To deny these things is to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit, for it is the Holy Spirit that reveals these things to us.