Two Sons of God Mentioned in the Bible

Most people overlook, or perhaps intentionally ignore, the fact that there are TWO people referred to in the New Testament as "son of God."

One, of course, is Jesus. But the other is Adam, in one of the genealogies.

When my Internet friend, Falstaff, speaks of Jesus being surprised and startled out of the sleep of death, by an angel, he is suggesting, or rather, his words suggest, that Jesus is only a man, and not "theanthropos" or "god-man".

I knew a Protestant Christian once who was horrified at the suggestion that Jesus is God. She said, "No! No! Jesus is the SON of God. But only the Father is God."

Archeologists and Paleontologists cite the oldest known reference to Christianity, by non-Christian writers as saying "They would gather at dawn, and sing hymns to Christ, as if to a God."

Now, in the face of the verse I cite stating that Jesus has the power to lay down his own life, and take it up again, what Falstaff describes in his poem is simply incorrect.

If it can be correct, or conceivable, that Jesus is both God and human, and yet is startaled and surprised by awakening in a resurrection, then, this is only possible to the extent that God can cast Maya or Illusion upon himself, to forget for a moment, his Godhood, and play at the Lila (pastime) of being a babe in a manger, or a prisoner, or one surprised by his awakening from death. But the notion of God being subject to maya is a Hindu understanding, and not a Judaeo-Christian one.

Jesus said: "I was present and saw Satan fall from heaven like lightening." What is Jesus talking about? Surely, this must be some reference to a time before the creation of light and darkness in Genesis; a time when there were only angels.

Jesus said "No man has seen the Father at any time. He who sees me sees the Father." This means that when prophet Daniel sees a white-haired Ancient of Days seated upon a throne, Daniel cannot possibly be seeing God the Father, since no man has seen the father at any time. So, Daniel must have been seeing Christ as the pre-Eternal Logos.

There are verses which seem to cloud these issues. Jesus says "for the Father is GREATER than I am." Greeks call this the "hypapantasis", meaning the humility of the Son to state that the Father is greater, even though, in the seven ecumenical councils, the unity and equality of the persons of the Trinity is stressed.

Jesus also says "No man knoweth the day an the hour, not even the Son, but only the Father knows". Jesus is saying that he does not know the day and the hour of the judgment described in the Book of Revelation. Yet, if Jesus and the Father are ONE, then how can Jesus NOT know?

To quote the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s article on Arianism: "In modern times some Unitarians are virtually Arians in that they are unwilling either to reduce Christ to a mere human being or to attribute to him a divine nature identical with that of the Father."

MONOPHYSITISM, the opposite of Arianism, teaches that Jesus had no human nature, but was wholly divine.

At St. John’s, in the late 1960s, when I began to sing Leonard Cohen’s song "Suzanne", I changed the line "forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone" to "forsaken, ALL SO HUMAN, he sank beneath your wisdom like a star."

I sensed that there was a problem with saying that Jesus was not human, and also a problem with saying that Jesus was merely human.

The Bible tells us that the poor shall always be with us (both Moses and Jesus say this), and that until the end of the world there shall always be wars and rumors of wars.

Yet we never cease to dream of ending poverty and achieving world peace.
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