Summary: Begetting And Making

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Summary:
Begetting and Making are two very separate ideas that can become easily confused. Begetting is the creating of something the same as the creator. Humans beget humans and birds beget birds. Making is the creating of something that is not the same as the creator. God made man; man is not God but is like God in some ways. God sent His begotten Son to earth so that the fallen humans of the world could become sons of God; humans are made into sons of God, not begot into sons of God. When Jesus came to earth, he gave us a perfect example of what a human life should look like. However, human lives are naturally self-centered, the opposite of Christ’s life. This self-centered lifestyle often holds individuals back from living for Christ. Christ died for humans as a whole; in principle, each individual is already saved and just needs to accept that salvation. Some have asked why God didn’t just beget sons of God instead of making them and then having them go through the difficult and agonizing process of becoming more like the one who God …show more content…

However, God lives apart from time; all times and places in all of history are the present for God. Even though there are millions of people praying to God at the same time in our world, God has all of eternity to listen to those prayers because of his infinite attention for each person. When you pray, you are as much alone with God as if you were the only person praying to Him. Humans have free will even though God already knows what decisions we will make. This is the case because God is outside and above our lives. God views our lives as a timeline. He does not look in the past or foresee the future. He simply sees every moment as the present. Some assume that Christ’s life as God was in time and that his time on earth was a part of his life as a whole. However, Christ’s time on earth has no relationship to His life as God because his life as God is beyond all space and

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