Originally Posted by Cheerful Charlie

6Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. 7And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

Originally Posted by I. C. Unicorns

Adam is not considered God's son?

Originally Posted by lpetrich

And why only a son? Why not also a daughter?

Originally Posted by dog-on

According to the Mormons, Satan is Jesus' brother. That makes at least 2...

Originally Posted by Clouseau

Maybe that's according to Satan.

Originally Posted by Clouseau

Maybe that's according to Satan.

Originally Posted by BALDUCCI

One of the main preoccupations of the early Christian fathers was to make distinctions between Christianity and the other competing faiths, while at the same time extracting and placing huge dollops of these competing religions within the Christian lexicon to make Christianity more familiar and attractive to those who would be subsequently converted.

>>When arguing this you seem to have forgotten to take into account that Jesus' coming was actually predicted several hundred years before it actually happened in the Old Testament, and in general these predicitions are very precise such as the whole riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. So there was little choice as to how they were going to 'tell the story'.

Its a bit like listening to answers to questions that havent been asked. You intuitively know you are in the presence of propaganda. If, indeed, Jesus was the only son, you wouldnt need to assert it all the time. The fact that you do indicates that there is a strong competing theory. What is so poignant is that what appears to be perfectly sensible grown up adults chant propaganda like this as if it is somehow derived wisdom. It also seems to indicate that people at the time, who were converting from Roman faith to Christianity, were pretty pragmatic and down-to-earth about their religion, and that it was a far simpler affair than the "eyes turned unto heaven" mock gravity that embues so much of the Christian faith today

Originally Posted by Chris Weimer

Yes, simple. So simple like the explanation that Goddidit. It explains everything, but is the view of the ignorant and the uneducated.

Originally Posted by Weird_princess13

>>It is asserted over and over again to remind us what a BIG sacrifice God has made by giving his only son. I think the idea that Jesus is God's son is being dissasociated from our daily encounters with the nature of parenthood. By being God's only son he is the most important to God. Specifically in the biblical context, a son is the most loved (over a daugter im afraid) and if there is only one son and he dies, what is there left in terms of legacy, and who else is there to comfort the fathers loss? When Jesus is called God's only son the amount of love and sacrifice involved is being demonstrated to us. Whether Jesus is actually God's only son is of little consequence, what is of significance is that he loved him as his only son. The emotions within this are more important than the physical nature of their relationship.