Biblical Common Sense – Jesus – This is My Son
June 24th, 2011 by Ron S.
Installment #3 in the series.
Biblical Common Sense – Jesus – “This is MY son”
There are two different events recorded in the New Testament where God himself vocally indicates that Jesus is His son. First at his baptism we have the accounts the three synoptic gospels.
Matt 3:16-171 After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”
Mark 1:10-11 Immediately coming up out of the water, He saw the heavens opening, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him; and a voice came out of the heavens: “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.”
Luke 3:21-22 Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus was also baptized, and while He was praying, heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.”
The second account occurs at the transfiguration and is also recorded in the three synoptic gospels.
Matt 17:5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!”
Mark 9:7 Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is My beloved Son, listen to Him!”
Luke 9:35 Then a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, My Chosen One; listen to Him!”
In these six accounts of the two different events, we have a voice calling Jesus “His son”. Common sense should tell us here that this voice belongs to God and that Jesus is NOT that God doing the speaking. The voice of God calls Jesus His Son. The overall aspect of these two events much less the words given “My beloved Son” should easily provide common sense clues that Jesus and God are two separate entities. If not we have a deception on our hands of the highest order. If Jesus was God – especially in an Oneness/”Jesus Only” sense then we are being tricked by a great act of ventriloquism. God would be performing an outright ruse to fool everyone into thinking that God and His Son were separate Father and Son entities. It would be a charade performed for the audience’s benefit (both to the people present to those events and to the many more who have read the record of those events since then in the written form of Scripture.
Biblical Common Sense Series:
1. Intro
3. Jesus – This is My Son
4. Jesus – The Anointed of God
Ron S,
Great article, but I continue to be frustrated when trying to relate how I feel to other people. I have a friend that is a a fairly new Christian and he is very compassionate about his faith and is extremely committed to memorizing as many verses from the bible as he can (something that I was never very good at). He just can’t seem to accept the fact that I’m a Biblical Unitarian. It seems to bother him because he brings it up every time I see him.
He says he’s worried about my salvation. Just today he quoted Matthew 10:33, ” but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.” He keeps saying that because I deny Christ’s deity that I am denying Christ and that this will effect my salvation. I keep telling him I’m not denying Christ but he just doesn’t see it that way at all.
I really admire his strong faith, but I just wish people wouldn’t be so doggone determined to make other people believe exactly what it is they believe…
The article reads:
“Common sense should tell us here that this voice belongs to God and that Jesus is NOT that God doing the speaking. ”
The Lord Jesus is not the Father.