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• • Often capitalized as a superhuman or divine being (such as an angel).
  • Capitalized as the messiah sense.
  • a person established in the love of God by divine promise.
  • Persons having special relationship with God.
  • Persons holding authority from God.


  THE PREEXISTENT TITLES OF JESUS

  SON OF GOD
• In the Old Testament, the sons of god are:

  -          Angels

  -          Kings

  -          Good People

  -          People of Israel
• When human beings began to grow numerous on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of human beings were, and so they took for their wives whomever they pleased.

  GENESIS 6: 1-2
• I will proclaim the decree of the LORD, he said to me, “You are my son; today I have begotten you.


  Psalm 2: 7
• For if the righteous one is the son of God, God will help him and deliver him from the hand of his foes.


  Wisdom 2: 18
• So you will say to Pharaoh, thus says the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn. I said to you: Let my son go, that he may serve me.


  Exodus 4: 22-23
• In the New Testament, Son of God:

  Followers of Christ

  Beloved Son of God
• Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.


  Matthew 5: 9
• After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water and behold, the heavens were opened [for him], and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove [and] coming upon him. And a voice came from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”


  Matthew 3: 16-17
• Christ's Divine Sonship is the center of the apostolic faith


  CCC 442
• You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God (Matthew 16:16)


  St. Peter’s Profession
• When he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles (Galatian 1: 15-17)


  Conversion of St. Pau
• Proclamation of St. Pau


  And in the synagogues immediately [Paul] proclaimed Jesus, saying, He is the Son of God (Acts 9:20)
• The Hebrew word for “Word” is dabar, and Greek is logos. It can refer not only to a single “word,” but also to a “phrase,” a “sentence,” a “speech,” or even the power of speech and reasoning
• For the Islam, the word is referring to Jesus as Kalima (word) or acknowledging Jesus as Kalimatim-minallaah (Word from God)