In Christian theology, God the Son is the second person of the Trinity, which teaches that Jesus Christ is the Incarnation of God.[1] God the Son who along with the Father and the Holy Spirit is of the same essence, share the same qualities, and each are fully God.
These three words: "God the Son" are nowhere to be found in the Bible,[2][3] but are found in later Christian sources.[4] At one time, a scribe made an error in one medieval manuscript, MS No. 1985, where Galatians 2:20 has "Son of God" changed to "God the Son".[5]
The New American Standard Bible chooses to translate John 1:18 as:
No one has seen God at any time; God the only Son, who is in the arms of the Father, He has explained Him.
— John 1:18 NASB
There is no such phrase in the Bible, as 'God the Son,' or 'God the Holy Ghost.'
Oneness Pentecostals argue that Scripture never indicates that Jesus' sonship is an eternal sonship. The term 'eternal Son' is never found in the Bible. Nor is the term 'God the Son' in the Bible.
One notes that it does not aspire beyond the pre-trinitarian notion of 'Son of God' to the properly trinitarian idea of 'God the Son.'
... by adding precisely the words that had earlier been omitted, tov viov, but in the wrong place, making the text now read 'faith in God the Son ...' neither of the other expressions ('God even Christ,' 'God the Son') occurs in this way in Paul.
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