David in NJ
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And Jesus replied, John 8:25 (WEB), "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning". And what had he been saying? Had he said "I am God" or "I am YHWH"? No. He had been saying that he was the Son of God. John the baptist testified that Jesus was the Son of God (John 1:34); demons said he was the Son of God (Matthew 8:29, Mark 3:11, Luke 4:41); Satan said Jesus was the Son of God (Matthew 4:3,6); even the centurion at the cross recognised that Jesus was the Son of God (Mark 15:39). Jesus clearly claimed it too, e.g. Luke 22:70 (WEB):
(70) They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?” He said to them, “You say it, because I am.”and John 10:36 (WEB):
(36) do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’Peter confirmed it, and Jesus said that he was blessed because he believed it, Matthew 16:16-17 (WEB):
(16) Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
(17) Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
John declared it, John 20:31 (WEB):
(31) but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
Paul taught it, Acts 9:20 (WEB):
(20) Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.Hebrews 4:14 (WEB):
(14) Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.
Yes. Jesus is the only-begotten Son of God YHWH, who YHWH anointed to be mankind's saviour and to be king over YHWH's kingdom, the Messiah that was promised to the Israelites.
keithr, the Beginning is Genesis - this is what and where the LORD is speaking of to the Jews and jw's and lds, and it goes right over their heads.
Don't be one of them.