Who was the son of Jesus Christ?

Answer 1

Christian ViewAnswer 1

Great question. Jesus is not a son of God, he is God. Let me explain it simply. God, also called the Father (because he is the creator and origin of all things), is by nature invisible. The reason he is invisible is because he is infinite, and can not be contained by anything- the heavens of the heavens cannot contain him. Nor can the spiritual heavenly rhelm contain him, because it too is created. Solomon confirmed this when he said 'the heavens of the heavens cannot contain thee much less this temple that I have built ' (1 Kings 8:27).Many verses talk of his invisible nature, for example 1 Tim. 1:17; 6:15-16; 1 John 4:12. So who is the son? Many people in The Bible were called the sons of God. ie. the angels were called the sons of God because they were created by God, or came out of God. Adam was called the son of God because he too was created by God. Christians are called the sons of God by adoption because their spirit is born of God 'born, not of the will of the flesh, or the will of man, but born of God'. Jesus was called the son of God too and we can see from these other example that to be a son means that you were created, and came out of God. Col 1:15 confirms this when it says he is 'the firstborn of all creation' or the fist to be created before any other thing was made. Rev 3:14 says the same thing, calling him the beginning of the creation of God, but note that many translations beside the KJV have changed this and the Col scripture because they were scared of how it sounded and wanted to refute erronious Jehova's witness teachings. Even if you took these scriptures out, you can still understand that the bible is talking of Jesus having an origin by using the words 'son', 'begotten', 'firstbegotten', 'firstborn'. I will argue it this way. How can you be a son unless you had a father. And how can you be a son unless you were first born, or came out of someone? How can you be begotten unless you had a father to beget you? (read Gen 5: 1-4 if you don't understand this word). Some people say that there were 3 people that simultaneously existed from the beginning of time, a 'trinity', one called Father, one called Son and one called Holy Spirit. This is not scriptural but is false philosophy. If Jesus existed from eternity with the Father, and decided that he would call himself 'the Son', then when he prayed on earth and called God 'my Father' he would have been lying. You cannot call someone your Father unless you were born of them and came out of them. Jesus calling God 'my Father' would be as rediculous and a big lie in the same way as I took someone random off the street and called them my Father, if the trinitatian philosophy were true. But who is Jesus? Read Col 1:15. He is the image of that invisible God. Now think deeply for a minute. 1) How can you get an image of something that is invisible? 2) If you look at your reflection in the mirror, who is the image of that is looking back at you. Right, it is yourself. So God is saying that he is an invisible God that cannot be contained, but he has made an image for himself before he made any other thing, and that when you see that image of God, you are seeing God. Read also 2 Corinth 4: 3-6 as confirmation. Note that the Col 1:15 verse is singular, meaning that the invisible God has only one image. So, no, he is not a son of God. He is the son of God, and to be the son of God means that he is the image of God that God made for himself. Without the son, we could never touch, walk with or see God. Neither would he have had the ability to die for us unless he first created a body for himself in which he could suffer and shed his blood. So when Jesus died on the cross, that was God suffering and dying for us. He did it by becoming completely human to share in all our weaknesses and ultimately, to both encourage us to overcome the world and to be an acceptable substitution for our weaknesses and faults. Another topic is 'what does it mean to be called the only begotten son of God when God had other sons of God?' or 'was Jesus born 2000 years ago, or did he exist in heaven before? Or 'if Jesus were God, why did he pray? or 'what scriptures tell us that Jesus is God? There is plenty more to say but I don't want to overload you. Ask more cool questions if you wish!

Answer 2

No. Christians believe that Jesus Christ is God the Son - God in human form. There are those (like Jehovah's Witnesses) who will insist that Jesus as one of the persons of the trinitarian Godhead and that he is simply 'a son of God' or 'God-like' or a 'demigod'. One cannot blame JWs for believing this as that is what they are taught in their group, and expected to believe. They have been told by the Watchtower Society that the 'Trinity' was invented in the fourth century and therefore they are expected to toe the line, and also refrain from researching themselves other, reliable, sources. The simple truth is that Jesus never claimed to be a subservient 'Son' of God for various reasons. More to the point, his followers regarded him as God in human form, as did the entire early Christian church - many of whom could trace their teaching right back to the disciples themselves (eg. Irenaeus of the Early Church, who wrote extensively on the divinity and Godship of Jesus was a pupil of Polycarp, who was, in turn, a pupil of John the disciple). As far as Jesus claiming to be God, there are several reasons for this:1. Jesus forgave sins. To the Jews, only God could forgive sins, so in forgiving sins Jesus claimed to be God.

2. He performed miracles in his own name (and not God's). Only God could do that.

3. Other disciples performed miracles in Jesus' name (not Jehovah's). Therefore even the disciples regarded him as God.

4. Jesus accepted worship on many occasions.

5. Though only the Father knows the day and hour of Jesus' second coming, this does not make him subservient, for he stated that he would come to judge the earth (not 'God') and he would send the Holy Spirit (not 'God'). Thus Jesus claimed to be God having dominion over even the end times and the Holy Spirit.

6. Jesus taught with God's authority, and not like the scribes and pharisees, and not like a prophet. On many occasions he said "It is written in the law that........ but Itell you this.....'. Such authority was blasphemy unless Jesus was who he said he was.

7. The Jews, in order to be rid of Jesus, had to come up with a charge. This charge was of blasphemy, because, as they said 'He claimed to be God'.

8. The disciples recognised who Jesus was. When seeing the risen Christ, Thomas exclaimed 'My Lord and my God!'

9. Prophets foretold Jesus' coming. They did not use the term 'son' of God. They made it very clear: he was called Emmanuel - meaning "God is with us".

10. Probably the most convincing argument of Jesus' divinity is the nature of the Cross. To the Jehovah's Witnesses and other heretical sects who deny Jesus' divinity, Jesus died on the Cross as a subservient 'son' of God. If this is true, then the Cross becomes a mockery. If Jesus is just another person, even if a subservient 'Son' then God is sacrificing someone elserather than taking the sins of the world on his ownshoulders. This then means that God is a vengeful God who needs to be appeased just like the pagan gods of the Aztecs who demanded human sacrifice to be appeased. However, if God himself, in human form, sacrifices himself on the Cross, this speaks of a God of ultimate love, of whom Jesus spoke, sacrificing himself as an act of unlimited, unconditional love for all humanity.

The Jehovah's Witnesses and other groups who deny Jesus' divinity will quote verse after verse of scripture to back up their claims, out of context, and with very basic (if any) understanding of the nature of the verse in both the original Greek and in the culture of that day. Those verses that categorically cannot be used to back up their bogus claims (such as John 1:1) are then mistranslated in the New World translation to specifically add credence to the spurious and discredited doctrine of Arianism adopted by the JWs today.

The fact remains that Jesus himself claimed to be God, and that claim was substantiated time and time again. And onlythrough that claim being true can everything else slip into place as God (or Jehovah, or Allah, or the Holy Spirit, or the Trinity - whatever you wish to call Him) intended. Jesus never claimed to be the subservient 'son' of a God. He didn't intend to.

Islamic perspectiveIn Islam religion, Jesus is believed as one of the greatest prophets and one of the greatest messengers of God to mankind but neither God nor son of God.

In the Quran, there is a complete chapter (called Surah) titled 'Maryam' (Mary) that confirms Maryam virgin birth. The Quran states the following on the birth of Jesus:

(Remember) when the angels said, "O Mary, God gives you good news of a word from Him (God), whose name is the Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, revered in this world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near (to God). He will speak to the people from his cradle and as a man, and he is of the righteous." She said, "My Lord, how can I have a child when no mortal has touched me?" He said, "So (it will be). God creates what He wills. If He decrees a thing, He says to it only, 'Be!' and it is." (Quran, 3:45-47)

Jesus was born as miracle by the word and command of God. This command is, as said in Quran, the same command that had brought Adam into being with neither a father nor a mother. God has said in Quran:

The case of Jesus with God is like the case of Adam. He created him from dust, and then He said to him, "Be!" and he came into being. (Quran, 3/59)

During the prophetic mission of Jesus, Jesus performed many miracles. God tells us that Jesus said:

"I have come to you with a sign from your Lord. I make for you the shape of a bird out of clay, I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by God's permission. I heal the blind from birth and the leper. And I bring the dead to life by God's permission. And I tell you what you eat and what you store in your houses...." (Quran, 3/49)

Muslims believe that Jesus was not crucified. They believe that the enemies of Jesus plotted and planned to crucify Jesus. However, God miraculously saved Jesus and raised him up to Him (to God). God, the all powerful and the all capable, put the likeness of Jesus over another man. The enemies of Jesus thought that the this other man is Jesus and they took him and crucified him. God has said:

...They said, "We killed the Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of God." They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but the likeness of him was put on another man (and they killed that man)... (Quran, 4/157)

Quran says (meaning translation): "Jesus said I am indeed a servant of ALLAH (God). He (God) has given me Revelation and made me prophet and He (God) has made me blessed wheresoever I be and has enjoined on me Prayer and Zakat (Charity) as long as I live. He (God) made me kind to my mother (Mary). Peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day I shall be that I shall be raised up to life again... It is not befitting to the majesty of Allah (God) that he should beget a son. Glory be to him (God) when he determines a matter, He (God) only says to it "Be" and it is. Verily ALLAH (God) is my Lord and your Lord: Him therefore serve ye: this is a Way that is straight" (Quran 19/30-36). Accordingly, in Islam religion, Jesus is neither God nor son of God.

It is worthy to emphasize that both Jesus and Mohamed, or may be spelled Muhammad, came to mankind to call for worshiping only and the only one God. Neither of them nor Moses came to change the basic doctrine of the belief in one and only God. this doctrine that was brought by earlier prophets from including Noah, Abraham, Isac, Jacob, David, Solomon, and others. both Jesus and Mohamed received the revelation from God to confirm and renew the doctrine of worshiping one (and only one) God.

Answer 2

The Jews are still expecting their prophets prophesy's to be fulfilled and await the coming of the Messiah (the Son of God).

Christians (and the Jews that believed in Christ) believe that the prophesy's were fulfilled by the coming and birth of Christ. They therefore follow the teachings of Christ which build on and fulfill the expectations of the Jewish Torah.

If the Christians are correct then the Jews will be waiting a very long time for the Son of God because he has already come and gone.

Answer 3

No-one, except in the metaphorical sense that we are all God's children.

Even the the Jewish definition of "messiah" doesn't equate to a son of God, in the way that it does in Christianity.

Answer 4

1 John 5:20New American Standard Bible (NASB)
20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Answer 5

According to the Bible Jesus did not have any sons or daughters.

Answer 6

We mean the only one son of god that always followed the LORD`S ways, the one who leads us all, our role model.

Answer 7

Jews do not have an individual who takes this title. Even when the Messiah will come, Jews will still not consider this person to be the Son of God, but simply a man like any other.

Answer 8

Jews and Christians both have many prayers addressed to "Our Heavenly Father" or other phrases that address God as our father. In that sense, Jews and Christians all consider ourselves to be children of God. In that sense, we are all sons and daughters of God. However, Christians have identified Jesus as the Son of God, and elevated this designation to become one part of a trinitarian godhead. Jews do not elevate any person to such divine status.