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jt: Here it is again, this time by an Evangelical Bible Scholar who says the same thing ie: that "eternal Sonship" protects the members of the Godhead from "inequality or temporality" assuring that they are "coequal" - Yet Jesus Himself clearly says "THE FATHER IS GREATER THAN I" (John 14:28b) So which is it folk? God's Word or the words of the theologians? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Concerning the eternal Sonship of Christ, Ryrie has this to say: I agree with Buswell (A Systematic Theology of the Christian Religion, pp. 105-12) that generation is not an exegetically based doctrine. The concept it tries to convey, however, is not unscriptural, and certainly the doctrine of sonship is scriptural. The phrase �eternal generation� is simply an attempt to describe the Father-Son relationship in the Trinity and, by using the word �eternal,� protect it from any idea of inequality or temporality. But whether or not one chooses to use the idea of eternal generation, the personal and eternal and coequal relation of the Father and Son must be affirmed. |
