The son of God: created by His Father, completely obedient to His Father, lived in heaven

The first creative act of JHWH brought forth His Son. This Son is the only created being that was directly produced by the Father Himself. The Bible calls God’s Son repeatedly the first born of all creation. In Greek the word monogenes is often used for God’s Son. The Greek word means: unique in its kind; of the species to which God the Son belongs there is only one.

This means that the Son of God had a beginning and owes His life to His Father. Jesus (the name that the Son of God used for Himself when on earth) often testified to this fact during His earthly life.

It is possible that Jesus had lived for thousands of millions of years before the earth and man were created. He Himself was a created being, who did not have the innate ability to create. However, His Father used Him to create everything that is to be found in the universe, including millions of angels. But in this activity Jesus did not use His own creative power and His own mental capacities, but the creative power and the holy spirit which His Father allowed Him to use.

Before He came to the earth the Son of God was known as The Word in heaven. No doubt this means that God’s Son was particularly used by His Father, during His years in heaven, to pass on words, information and instructions to angels and to people. God the Father used the Son as His spokesman.

Though Jesus Christ was a direct creation of JHWH and has obviously inherited a lot His Father’s divine qualities, the Bible never puts God on the same level as His almighty Father. Thus the Bible clearly states that the Son owes His existence and everything He is and has to His Father. And naturally the Father does not owe His existence to His Son.

When He was on our earth Jesus Christ always said that His Father was greater and higher than He, and that He had come to the earth to do the will of His Father.

Jesus referred to His Father with the words: the only true God. Jesus continually emphasized the fact that He was subjected to His Father, that He owed His Father obedience and that He considered it His only mission on earth to do His Father’s will.

Also think of Jesus’ words when He ascended to heaven: I am going to my Father and to your Father, to My God and to your God.

In short: though as a direct creation of His Father Jesus certainly possesses a lot of divine qualities, He is not of the same level as His Father and the chief aspect of their relationship is the aspect of authority: the Son does what the Father wants Him to do.

In addition: during His life on earth God’s Son told the people again and again that He knew the personality and the character qualities of His Father down to the minutest details and that He considered it His life-work to present and show the personality and the qualities of His Father so perfectly through His own way of living that anyone who knew Him well, also knew His Father well.

As a matter of fact: it is that good that people realize that, while on earth, God’s Son also considered Himself an ordinary human being: at some 80 places in the Greek Scriptures Jesus calls Himself the son of man.

The Son of God, who was called Jesus Christ when He was on earth, plays a vital part in God’s plan of salvation for mankind who, after the rebellion of Adam and Eve, seemed doomed to die after a hard and unpleasant life. Right after the rebellion of Adam and Eve in paradise God promised a seed (a descendent of mankind) who would crush Satan’s head, restore the damage Satan had caused and redeem mankind from destruction. Giving more information about the way He was going to make this promise come true, God told Abraham, hundreds of years later, that through his seed (a descendent of him) all nations and all people would be blessed.

When God’s Son came to the earth He explained His Father’s plan of salvation very clearly. He told the people that He was the promised seed that His Father had talked about in paradise and the seed that His Father had promised Abraham and He also explained to the people how His Father’s plan of salvation would enable them to get eternal life and lasting perfect happiness, in spite of all that had happened.

He told the people about a heavenly government which would rule both the heaven and the earth and would have as its subjects people who would be allowed to live on their paradise-like earth for ever.

Jesus also told them that to make al of this possible He would have to sacrifice His earthly life to His Father.

God’s Son, Jesus Christ, came to the earth to play the essential role that His Father wanted Him to play in His great plan of salvation: the plan to bring about a paradise-like earth at the end human history. An earth inhabited by perfect people who would live on it for ever.

About the year 2 B.C. JHWH transferred the life of His only Son from heaven to Mary’s womb, where conception took place between the life force that came from heaven and a female ovum. In this way JHWH remained Jesus’ Father for 100 percent, Jesus remained God’s Son for 100 percent, the earthly woman Mary was the real mother of Jesus, and in all respects Jesus was a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah and King David and the legal heir to all the promises made to these people.

As we have written in earlier texts, Jesus was born in the early autumn of the year 2 B.C. He was baptized and anointed Messiah in the early autumn of the year 29 A.D. He died about three o’clock in the afternoon on Friday, the fourteenth day of the Jewish month called Nisan, in the year 33 A.D. He died on the day of the Jewish celebration of the Passover. His public ministry took about three and a half years: from the autumn of the year 29 A.D. to the spring of the year 33 A.D.

It is practically sure that Jesus was not born on 25 December. There is not any Biblical foundation for this date. In the first few centuries after Jesus’ death the Christians did not celebrate Christmas. Only in the fourth and fifth centuries did people in some countries start to celebrate Christmas, probably as a replacement for a heathen festivity which had been popular among the Romans for centuries and in which people celebrated the return of the sun of even the birth of the sun. In short: the origin of Christmas is pagan, not Christian.

After Jesus had been an ordinary child and an ordinary young adult for 30 years, He was baptized by John the Baptist. As Jesus had never sinned, this baptism did not have the usual meaning of forgiveness of sins. By letting Himself be baptized Jesus made it known to His Father that He was ready to start doing the work for which His Father had sent Him to the earth. Including sacrificing His body as a ransom for the people of good will. At this baptism God’s spirit descended on Jesus in the form of a pigeon and from heaven God’s voice was heard saying: you are the Son whom I love, I have approved of You. There can be no doubt about it that on this occasion God’s holy spirit sharpened Jesus’ insight into all the details of His prehuman existence and all the details concerning the work he was going to do.