God Sent His Son
By John Gavazzoni

Talk about something hidden in plain sight, yet missed by some who just cannot accept the Son of God's full sharing of Deity with the Father: "For God sent His Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." There it is in plain sight...He was sent AS (already) God's Son, and likewise came to us AS (already) God's Son. God did not send Him into the world to become His Son, He sent His only/uniquely begotten Son to us, as He was from before the beginning...THE Son of God to whose Sonship all sonship traces, and by which all sonship is constituted.

The Father didn't send an impersonal, spiritual potential of Sonship. There are various versions floating about that seek to convince us that Jesus was/is the Son of God only in the sense of Him, as a man of such high character, on that account, being worthy to be called the Son of God. That view, in its various versions, either hurriedly reads past, or utterly ignores, the clear explanation of Jesus as God's Son BEGOTTEN of the Father. "Begotten of the Father" explains the incorruptible character of Jesus of Nazareth, not the result of character attainment. In His human experience He "learned obedience by the things that He suffered" AS God's Son.

When God sent His Son into the world, from whence did He come? Jonathan Mitchell, in his translation of the New Testament, amplified, expanded, and with multiple renderings, has it precisely right. Jesus speaking: "I came from out of the midst of the Father and I have come into the universe (the world; the System of culture, religion, economics and politics)" (Jn.16:28a JMT). He came from out of the dimension of the timelessness/eternality of, and which is, the Father, into the temporal dimension of space - time - materiality, and came containing the whole of all things seminally within Himself consistent with Himself as the Cosmic Christ, in whom all things were created, and in whom all things consist (cohere).

That binding character of the material world...that coherence of all things...that holds all materiality together at its subatomic level, into which science is now probing more deeply than ever before, owes to the coherence of God's eternally inseparable Family - constituted relationship. Peering deeply into the essence of all things, as God would grant us such insight, we would discover that God, as a Father to Himself, a Son, and God, as a Son to Himself, a Father, is the substructure by which all things cohere, "because, forth from out of the midst of Him, and through the midst of Him (or: through means of Him), and into the midst of Him [is] the whole (everything; [are] all things; or:= Because He is the source, means and goal of all things - everything leads into Him)!" (Rom. 11:36a JMT).

When scripture refers to God (singular) and/or by personal pronouns (singular), as above, that divine singularity must be understood as intrinsically relational. God is One, but not One alone. The divine Oneness is not a Oneness of aloneness. The Divine Nature binds within Its Oneness, a unity of the Family OF God, and the Family which IS God. Jesus was very careful in His affirmation of His Oneness with the Father, including the conjunction "and." "I AND the Father are One." (emphasis, mine). For those who simply can't accept that God can be both a Father and a Son, I've asked several times, "just what is it about AND that you don't understand. The entirety of the universe is that relationship being played out, as J. Preston Eby explained: "God projected Himself out of Himself, that He might be Himself in another dimension, and He did that by His Word."

Our God is a begetting God...a Father... that Father from whom all the families in heaven and earth are named (natured). Within the timeless begetting of the Son was the Beginning of everything, and in that Son is the end, the goal, the consummation of that everything. His Personhood is the containment field of all things. That's the meaning of Christ as the First - begotten of all creation. It's not that God started everything by first creating a Son (anyway, sons aren't created, they're begotten), it's that He is the Beginning, as in all things having their beginning in Him.

Yes, God sent His Son into the world, "born of a woman." Eternal Sonship, thereby, became eonian, age - pertaining, and age - during through the birth canal of a young Jewish virgin. "And this is life eonian, that you may know Him, the true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent."