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Spurgeon tells us that it is not worth the fuss. Still, the noise, which certain " loose canons" have made over the "Sonship" issue , has nothing to do with Herb Evans, Gail Riplinger, or Dr Ruckman believing in the eternality an deity of the " Person" of our Lord ( whether under the Name of the " Son of God," " the Word," the " Messiah," or " Jesus Christ"), for the all believe that the preexistent Word was deity of God and that the God/man, the Son of God is also deity or God.

The Straw-man issue is merely a semantics exploitation of the title rather than the Being or Person of our Lord. The contention is cover whether His title as the " Son of God" (rather than His being) originated and functioned in eternity or time. We are simply saying that The Word was not the Son before He was so begotten. The Bible tells us that God the Word was MADE FLESH and dwelt among us not that God the Son was made flesh ( John 1:1,14).

Arthur Pink tells us that this does not refer to, Eternal Sonship not Christ's essential deity. One must make a difference between the Lord's Eternal Being and the God/man's earthly titles , Christ, Lamb, Servant, Son King, and so forth. One must make a difference between the preexistent Word and the God/Man's birth as the Son of God, MADE of a women and MADE of the Seed 4:4.

Can you see this didn't take place until the Word was Begotten?

" Jesus Christ our Lord..was made of the Seed of David according to the FLESH" Rom. 1:3

" He...SHALL be called the SON of the HIGHEST" Lk. 1:32.

" And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost SHALL come upon thee, and the Power of the Highest SHALL overshadow thee which SHALL be called the SON OF GOD" Lk. 1:35.

Saying that the title " Son of God" existed before the foundation of the world because it was in the mind of God and was purpose and ordained so is one thing. This would not be unlike the " Lamb of God" being slain from the foundation of the world. Now... if eternal Sonship advocates want to shift the argument to God's foreordained plan, we can all quit and go home believing that we were eternally saved as well as eternal Sonship, eternal Lamb-ship, eternal Christ-ship, eternal servant-ship, eternal man of son-ship, you see what I mean?


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"SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THY TRUTH: THY WORD IS TRUTH
(John 17:17)

And Jesus Speaking; " He that rejecteth me, receiveth not my words, hath one that, judgeth him:the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in
( John12:48 KJV)