Did you know the sense in which Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God?
Jesus is the Son of God in a sole and perfect way. At the time of his Baptism and his Transfiguration, the voice of the Father entitled Jesus his ‘beloved Son’. In so describing himself as the Son who ‘knows the Father’ (Matthew 11:27), Jesus affirmed his singular and eternal relationship with God his Father. He is ‘the Only Begotten Son of God’ (1 John 4:9), and so the Second person of the Blessed Trinity. He is the dominant figure of apostolic preaching. The apostles saw ‘his glory as one of the Only Begotten of the Father’ (John 1:14).
