1:5 What is the teaching underlying what God said here?
1:5 What is the teaching underlying what God said here?
The teaching underlying what God said here is that Jesus was never eternally God's Son, as so many Christians believe - He became the Son at His incarnation, when He took on human form (CP Psa 2:7; Ac 13:33; He 5:5). Psa 2 is a messianic Psalm - it prophesies the coming of Jesus as God's Messiah and quotes 2 Sam 7:12-17 (CP Psa 2:1-12 and 2 Sam 7:12-17 with Gen 49:10; Nu 24:17; Isa 7:14; 9:6-7; Mt 1:18-25; Lu 1:26-35; 2:11; Jn 1:14; Ga 4:4; Php 2:5-8).
Every one of those scriptures teach that Jesus had a beginning and therefore He could not have been the eternal Son of God because eternity is timeless. It has no beginning or end.
Before He took on human form at His incarnation, the person we now know as Jesus, had no beginning. He was not begotten; He did not come into being; He was not the Son of God - He was God (CP Nu 21:4-9 with 1Cor 10:9; Psa 45:6-7; Isa 6:1-5 with Jn 12:37-41; Mic 5:2; Jn 1:1-2; 3:13; 8:56-58; 17:5; Ac 20:28; Ro 9:5; Php 2:5-8; Col 2:8-10; 1Ti 3:16; Tit 2:13; He 1:8-12; 2Pe 1:1-2; 1 Jn 1:1-2; 3:16; Rev 1:8, 11, 17-18; 2:8; 3:14; 21:6; 22:12-13).
Those scriptures all teach that the pre-incarnate Jesus always existed as God. He was an equal member of the Godhead from all eternity (CP Isa 52:12). Jesus was a spirit being and carried out the divine plan of creation (CP Psa 90:2: 102:25-27; Jn 1:3, 10; Eph 3:9; Col 1:16-17; He 1:1-2, 10; 11:3; Rev 3:14).
For a more detailed study on this subject see comments on Mt1:18-21, 3:16-17; Lu 1:35(B), Jn 1:1, 5:16-23, 12:41, Ac 13:33, 20:28, Php 2:5-8, Col 2:9; 1Ti 3:16, He 5:5, 1Jn 5:6-9, Rev 1:8.