Jesus as the Son of God

Is Jesus the son of God? Yes. Was he the son of Mary? Yes. Was he the son of Joseph? Yes. Can a person have three parents? I suppose if your mother and father were divorced you could technically have more than two parents. However, Mary was not married to God (at least not in the literal sense). One might say that God was Jesus’ father just as He is our heavenly Father, but there one key difference. Jesus was fully God in addition to being fully man. This distinguishes his relationship with God as unique and different than any other person’s relationship with God. So what does it mean to be the son of God? The reading suggested that sonship ascribed deity to Jesus and deliberated about how valid, and to what extent, the manifestation of that deity played out. Interesting questions were asked and answered in relation to the claims of Jesus by others and his own personal claims of deity in the Gospel of John as well as the Synoptic Gospels. There are many “I AM” statements by Jesus in the Gospel of John which show Jesus demonstrating his deity by verbal affirmation. In contrast, Jesus refers to himself as “son of man” in the Synoptic Gospels. As said in the reading, the term “son of man” is a reference to Daniel seven and was used by Jesus to clarify who he was and gave a glimpse into what his purpose was on this earth. In addition, the Synoptic Gospels show Jesus claiming deity as the son of God and proving those claims by performing miracles. The nature, and extent, of his claims and miracles give solid evidence that Jesus is who he claimed to be: the son of God. If he’s not the son of God, Jesus is just a good teacher who got a raw deal in life. That is not all there is to Jesus. He is the lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world, a suffering servant who died as a ransom for many, and the sole mediator between God and man.