God the Son, Mentor's Guide, MG10

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b. Rom. 9.5

c. 1 John 5.20

4. “Begotten not created”: The Creed confesses that Jesus was begotten by God but not made by him; the relationship with the Father and Son is unique .

a. All things were made through Christ, he himself was in the very form of God, Phil. 2.6

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b. Jesus as the begotten Son of God does not diminish his equality with God, John 5.18-19

5. “Of the same essence of the Father”: The Creed confesses that Jesus shared the same essence with the Father, that is, they shared the same nature and substance in his preexistent state .

a. Jesus shared in the Father’s glory before his descent into the world, John 17.1-5

b. Jesus has life in himself even as the Father has life in himself, John 5.26-27

6. “Through whom all things were made”: The Creed confesses that Jesus was the One through whom God made the heavens and the earth .

The Son is the cause of all good things, by the will of the Almighty Father. ~ Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E) 2.524. Ibid. p. 95.

a. John 1.1-5