Is this where Christianity got off track?
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father…
The Nicene Creed
Jesus was, is and will always be the eternal word of God. This is who he is absolutely.
In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God. From the very beginning the Word was with God. Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to people. …The Word became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us.
(John 1:1-4, 14)
Jesus became the “Son of God” when he was born into this world. When that happened, his relationship with God changed.
“I will announce,” says the king, “what the Lord has declared. He said to me: ‘You are my son; today I have become your father.
(Psalm 2:7)
…Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; for that reason also the holy Child will be called the Son of God.
(Luke 1:34-35, NASB)
Jesus became our high priest. That came about via a process in which he endured temptation.
Our High Priest is not one who cannot feel sympathy for our weaknesses. On the contrary, we have a High Priest who was tempted in every way that we are, but did not sin.
(Hebrews 4:15)
Jesus became our savior and source of salvation. Jesus was made perfect through his sufferings.
…he learned through his sufferings to be obedient. When he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey him…
(Hebrews 5:8-9)
Jesus came to sit at the right hand of God. He didn’t before but he is now there to intercede on our behalf.
So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
(Mark 16:19)
Christ Jesus is He who died, but rather, was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
(Romans 8:34)
So why did Jesus always refer to himself as the “Son of Man” while his followers always refer to him as the “Son of God”? How did the latter become to be known as who Jesus is absolutely with the subsequent “eternally begotten” implication? Eternally begotten? Really?!
In being born into this world, Jesus became a hybrid being – something the universe had never seen before. In us being “born again”, we likewise become hybrid beings and enter a process preparing us for the roles we are to assume.
Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.
(2 Corinthians 5:17)