It's about whether Jesus Christ, the Son of God begotten (not created) before creation, inherited the attributes of His Father... Or not. If the Son did inherit... That is He received as a Son the same nature as His Father, which is the only natural and logical conclusion to any Father/Son paradigm of any species, then that conclusion must and can only be, Jesus is God.
What makes you think "begotten" means "not created"? In every other mention of "monogenes" in the Bible, it speaks of an only child. There is no special word in the case of Jesus that means "uncreated".
A "begotten" child needs a 'begetter' who caused their existence and who preceded them in time.
KJV
John 10:30
30 I and my Father are one.
John 17:20-22....KJV
" Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one".
This is a unity of thought and purpose.....nothing to do with Jesus being God....its about him being one with God, in full agreement....and the disciples also being in full agreement with them both.
In the beginning God * created the heaven and the earth
*. 0430 םיהִלאֱ ‘elohiym el-o-heem’
plural of 0433; n m p; [BDB-43a] {See TWOT on 93 @@ "93c"}
AV-God 2346, god 244, judge 5, GOD 1, goddess 2, great 2, mighty 2, angels 1, exceeding 1, God-ward + 04136 1, godly 1; 2606
1) (plural)
1a) rulers, judges
1b) divine ones
1c) angels
1d) gods
2) (plural intensive-singular meaning)
2a) god, goddess
2b) godlike one
2c) works or special possessions of God
2d) the (true) God
2e) God
Why pick just that one out of all those meanings? Ever heard of "the plural of majesty"...the royal "We"?
This word in Hebrew can relate to even divinely authorized human beings and angels. Try again....
When God said
"Let us make man in our image" he was not talking to himself, but since all creation came into existence through the agency of his son, God was addressing his "Master workman" who was at his Father's side during the whole creative process. (Proverbs 8:30-31)
All creation came "through" the son, not from him. (Colossians 1:15-17) The son is not God. He is a "servant" of his Father. (Acts 4:27)
KJV
Proverbs 30:4
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? (See
John 3:13) who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth?
what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Read that again...it isn't saying what you think it is.....
In context it says....
"The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; The oracle. The man saith unto Ithiel, unto Ithiel and Ucal: 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man; 3 And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One.
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in his garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou knowest?" (ASV)
Not much is known about this writer of Proverbs 30, but he confesses no knowledge of the Holy One.
He asks rhetorically, "Who hath ascended up into heaven and descended?" This is asking who went up to heaven and came back down again.
At that time, asking "what is his name and what is his son's name?" was just about finding out who a person was....their name and the name of their son was their identity in those times....the reason why someone was known as "the son of...."
At that time no one knew that God was going to have human son. The only human son of God named in scripture up to that time, was Adam. (Luke 3:38) Christ's divine nature was revealed only when Jesus began his ministry and taught his disciples who he was. The Jews had no prior knowledge that their Messiah was to be a "son of God". They just knew he was to be a human king who would fulfill many prophesies and rule Israel, restoring God's people to their homeland and bringing them back to pure worship...something they had difficulty maintaining throughout their woeful history.
This is why the Jewish leaders rejected Jesus and accused him of blasphemy.....because he claimed God as his Father. He never once claimed to be God.
KJV
John 6:44-46
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
Yes,
"he which is of God, he hath seen the Father"....or as the NSAB puts it...
"Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father."
Where is that saying that Jesus is God?
KJV
Hebrews 1:1-3
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Again you read right over what you don't see to highlight what seems to agree with your POV.
Verse 2....
"Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds"
Why not highlight that verse?
Does God appoint his equal self to inherit what is already his? How is Jesus an "heir" if he is God....How can you make sense of any of this?
What does the above mean, a human being the brightness of God's glory?
How about including the rest of that verse?....
"and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high."
"The express image of his person"......an image is a reflection and Jesus was a perfect reflection of his God....as Strongs points out...
"Christ is called in Hebrews 1:3 ἀπαύγ. τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ, inasmuch as he perfectly reflects the majesty of God; so that the same thing is declared here of Christ metaphysically, which he says of himself in an ethical sense in John 12:45 (John 14:9)"
But how does God sit beside himself?