{"id":9513,"date":"2017-07-17T13:09:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=9513"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T13:09:42","slug":"the-son-of-god-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/9513\/the-son-of-god-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The&#8221; Son of God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In a recent excerpt from your book, <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a style=\"color:#0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=fands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;God Had a Son before Mary Did&#8221;<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0you quoted a verse from your NT translation which has demons referring to &#8220;the&#8221; Son of God. If demons did not know about the pre-existent Son of God, wouldn&#8217;t they have said &#8220;a&#8221; Son of God instead of &#8220;the&#8221; Son of God? Your translation has the Roman centurion saying &#8220;Surely this man was A son of God&#8221;. I was just wondering if the demons would have said that, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Billy H.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>In the Greek text which quotes the demons as saying &#8220;the Son of God&#8221;, the word &#8220;the&#8221; is there, so that is what they said. But what I learned as I researched the book, Billy, is that one title the Jews used at the time for the Messiah was &#8220;the Son of God&#8221;. So, when demons said &#8220;the Son of God&#8221;, they too would have had the Messiah in mind. They knew a Messiah was coming, and that he would be very great, but of the pre-existent Son of God, they knew nothing \u2013 just like everybody else in the universe.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, In a recent excerpt from your book, &#8220;God Had a Son before Mary Did&#8221;,\u00a0you quoted a verse from your NT translation which has demons referring to &#8220;the&#8221; Son of God. If demons did not know about the pre-existent Son of God, wouldn&#8217;t they have said &#8220;a&#8221; Son of God instead of &#8220;the&#8221; Son of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}