Adam is not the "son of God" in the SAME sense as Jesus, but that's obvious, right?
Every sort of heretic on TOL always resorts to THAT tactic, Jesus is NOT like ANY of those "sons of God".
John 3:16 (AKJV/PCE)
(3:16) ¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
"Only begotten" is
monogenes which is a compound word starting with MONO means ONLY (i.e., as in ONE AND ONLY).
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Fourth, there isn't a difference between playing parts and playing roles. They are synonyms. We could break out a dictionary if necessary.
God does neither, so there.
Taking inventory of your response, that's
one straw man attack,
two little emoticons, and yet
another "so there you're wrong" statement without support.
You asked when God became "a father" didn't you? You didn't ask when "The Father" became his designation. Because you tend to be rather antagonistic and accusatory I'm required to answer with precision.
Regardless, your attack was pretty stupid considering nothing was said concerning the designation of "begotten." Did you ask "When did God became a father by begetting?" If that was your question, I'd place that about 2000 years ago, as recorded in the gospel accounts,
Luke 1:34-35 KJV
(34) Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
(35) And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee:
therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God.
=> But did you get that? The angel himself gave the answer for our question.
THEREFORE ... (which means for that reason) ... that holy thing (Jesus) shall be called the Son of God. Not for another reason,
but for the reason that Mary was impregnated by the Holy Ghost.
Mary was not impregnated by the Holy Ghost before, was she? Therefore... no "eternal Son of God." It is a designation that is dependent upon condition and circumstance, presentation, if you will. Don't argue with me on this,
take up your objection with the archangel Gabriel. Or the Holy Ghost that inspired the gospel, take your pick.
So at that point a designation between "Father" and "Son of God" became applicable. If you try to change the question again back to "when did God become a father" I will again point back to Genesis through Luke 3:38,
Luke 3:38 KJV
(38) Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of
Adam, which was the son of God.
=> Though I suppose if you want to get technical, we might even go a few days before that with the creation of angels, which were present at the creation of Adam already.
Job 38:6-7 KJV
(6) Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
(7)
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Hebrews 12:9 KJV
(9) Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection
unto the Father of spirits, and live?
=> So taking a guess at the precise time of the angels' creation, perhaps God was "a father" as early back as Day Four of the creation week.
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Does it frustrate you having nothing to say but "you're wrong" over and over while receiving answers from scripture? My mental image of you is of someone whose face is glowing red while his eyes bulge out as he stabs his fingers at the well worn keys that spell out "You're wrong."
