Thursday, September 24, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 74 - Part III.
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(Youcat
answer - Repeated) When Jesus calls himself “God’s only-begotten Son” (or “only
Son”, Jn 3:16) and Peter and others bear witness to this, the expression means
that of all men only Jesus is more than a man.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 443)
Peter could recognize the transcendent character of the Messiah's divine
sonship because Jesus had clearly allowed it to be so understood. To his
accusers' question before the Sanhedrin, "Are you the Son of God,
then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am"(Lk 22:70; cf. Mt
26:64; Mk 14:61-62). Well before this, Jesus referred to himself as "the
Son" who knows the Father, as distinct from the "servants" God had
earlier sent to his people; he is superior even to the angels (Cf. Mt 11:27; 21:34-38; 24:36). He distinguished
his sonship from that of his disciples by never saying "our Father",
except to command them: "You, then, pray like this: 'Our Father'",
and he emphasized this distinction, saying "my Father and your
Father" (Mt 5:48; 6:8-9; 7:21; Lk 11:13; Jn 20:17).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) In many
passages of the New Testament (Jn 1:14, 18; 1 Jn 4:9; Heb 1:2, and so on) Jesus
is called “Son”. At his baptism and his Transfiguration, the voice from heaven
calls Jesus “my beloved Son”. Jesus discloses to his disciples his unique
relationship to his heavenly Father: “All things have been delivered to me by
my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the
Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him” (Mt
11:27). The fact that Jesus Christ really is God’s Son comes to light at the
Resurrection.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 454)
The title "Son of God" signifies the unique and eternal relationship
of Jesus Christ to God his Father: he is the only Son of the Father (cf. Jn
1:14, 18; 3:16, 18); he is God himself (cf. Jn 1:1). To be a Christian, one
must believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God (cf. Acts 8:37; 1 Jn 2:23).
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