I read the excerpts from Chapter 6 of your Father and Son book.
Wow, wonderful thoughts of life!
When you were telling about Eve, and comparing her experience with that of Jesus in the wilderness, it made me remember the very first desire I felt when I knew I needed the holy ghost because those people who had it had a power to overcome sin every day, a power I knew I did not have in my own!
I LOVE these thoughts from Jesus that you wrote!
Donna
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Hey
There sure are some things to chew on in Chapter 6. While reading these things, I had thoughts about two of the consistent lines of attack against Jesus while he was on the earth.
The issue of him being the/a son of God, which was called blasphemy etc.
The issue of keeping the Law and lawfulness in general.
The second issue continued after Pentecost with the accusations brought against Steven and Paul and the trouble involved in Acts 15, Galatians and Asia in general. I can see Satan the lawyer being used and at work in this. Just wondering if there is a place to consider these things in the text of the book. If nothing else it opens up the consideration of what was going on while Jesus walked among men. And when you consider things like the Trinity doctrine and the whole issue of ceremonies, these lines of attack are still present to this day.
I also looked up all occurrences of the exact phrase “the Son of God” in the KJV to see whether the article [“the”] appears in the Byzantine Greek text. Here are the places where the article appears with huios along with the speaker/writer. Don’t know if this shows anything. If Romans 1:4 is accepted as having the article, then every occurrence [of “Son of God”] after Pentecost has the article.
Matt 26:63 high priest speaking
Mark 3:11 unclean spirits speaking
Luke 4:41 demons speaking
22:70 the council of elders speaking
John 1:34 John the Baptist speaking
1:49 Nathanael speaking
5:25; 9:35; 11:4 Jesus speaking
11:27 Martha speaking
20:31 John speaking
Acts 8:37 (??? This verse is not in the Byzantine mss. The UBS Greek text also omits this verse, but in footnotes, some Greek versions cited for v37 do have the article.)
9:20 Paul speaking
Rom 1:4 Could be. Whole phrase in genitive – του ορισθεντος υιου θεου
2Cor. 1:19 Paul (interposed words between article and huios)
Gal 2:20 Paul
Eph 4:13 Paul
Heb 4:14; 6:6; 7:3; 10:29 author of Hebrews speaking
1John 3:8; 4:15; 5:5,10,12,13,20 John
Rev 2:18 Jesus
Damien
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Thanks, Damien.
It is interesting that every time “Son of God” appears after Pentecost, “the” is attached. The Son really was revealed when the Spirit came, wasn’t he?
“The issue of keeping the Law and lawfulness in general” was not that much of an issue while Jesus was still here on earth. But it certainly became a huge issue among God’s people in the years following God’s call to the Gentiles (Acts 10), and especially after God’s anointing of Paul with a gospel for them.