“And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory - the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).
Only begotten means “the only One of His kind.” There is none other like Jesus and the Gospel of John tells us why… “In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men” (John 1:1-4).
“Only Begotten” does not imply that Jesus “became” the Son of God at His incarnation, for He IS God (1 John 1:1,2). Rather, it stresses the fact that the full revelation of God’s character (and plan of salvation) is revealed in Jesus alone… “No one has seen God at any time; the Only Begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him” (John 1:18).
A belief in the wrong Jesus cannot save… “The one who believes on Him is not condemned: but the one who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the Only Begotten Son of God” (John 3:18). Further, to reject the Bible’s testimony of who Christ is, is to call God a liar (1 John 5:9-13).
The glory of the Gospel is that God gave us a Savior who cannot fail because of Who He is… “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His Only Begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him” (1 John 4:9).
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
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