In Isaiah 9:6-7 one of great prophecy of Jesus Birth, we are told a Son is given to us so why did not scripture state eternal/everlasting Son while at the end of the verse,
Jesus' relationship to the Father is that of Son. He is the Father's only-begotten. In the Holy and Divine Trinity there are Three Divine Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The Eternal and Divine Person of the Son, at a specific point in history, took on flesh, became human, was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit.
God the Son, therefore, was conceived and born, as the human son of Mary.
Jesus is the Divine Son of the Father.
Jesus is the human son of Mary.
"Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given"--to Mary, born of Mary.
Mary's Child, Mary's Son is also the Divine Son of the Father:
"And He shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, God the Mighty, Perpetual Father, Prince of Peace"
The One who would be born of Mary, the Messiah, shall be called these things; for the One whom Mary conceives in her womb is God, the Divine Son of the Father.
He is called the Everlasting Father?
אֲבִי עַד (Aby-ad), "a perpetual father", "father everlasting".
This is a royal title for the Messiah. In the ancient world kings were regarded as a father of the nation. The Messiah, as King, has an everlasting kingdom and dominion which can never pass away (Daniel 7:14).
In this same Book of the Bible the Word prophecies of His First Coming only acknowledging that He along with Two other Members are GOD, never called Himself the Son, Isaiah 48:16-17.
Isaiah 48:16-17 doesn't call Him Logos either. So that is irrelevant.
But what does it say in the Epistle to the Hebrews?
"But of the Son He says, 'Your Throne O God is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom'" (Hebrews 1:8)
God the Son.
In Luke 1:35 the angel Gabriel states He shall be called the Son of God, instead of stating He is the Eternal Son or even He is the Son of God probably didn’t want to confuse us more since most of the Church ignores Isaiah’s 9:6 Title the Everlasting Father.
The Son was conceived and born of the Virgin Mary, and He is confessed as such, "But who do you say that I am?" the Lord asked His disciples, to which Peter says, "You are the Christ! The Son of the Living God!" And how did Peter know this, through human knowledge, human intuition? No, but from God.
He's not merely a prophet, another Elijah, or another John the Baptist, He's something more: He's the Messiah, and He's the Divine Son of the Father made flesh.
Galatians 4:4, God states at His timing He sent His Son, made of a woman, and the law.
Sent His Son. The Son sent and incarnate, made man, of Mary's flesh. The Son came down from the infinite and eternal glory, and became human. The Son was sent. The Son was made man, conceived, and born.
The next few verses reveal that this was done for all God’s other children, God had only One Begotten, and because the Only Begotten Son came down from heaven to take away our sin problem, II Corinthians 5:21 Christ sacrifice allow all His other Children to be adopted into His family and made heirs, Romans 8:14-17 and Hebrew 2:9-18.
It is because we having been joined and united to Christ that we share in His Sonship. He, the Eternal Son of the Father, as pure grace, gives to us a share in what He has in relation to the Father; therefore to have the Holy Spirit in us we now can call His Father our Father, for we have received the Spirit of adoption, we have received the Spirit of the Son, by which we can cry out and say "Abba! Father!".
We have become sons, heirs, joint-heirs with Christ not because of our sonship, but because of His Sonship. He is the Son, we were enemies and strangers, alienated from God; but in Christ we have received adoption as sons. So now the One and Only Son, the Monogenes of the Father, has many brothers and sisters; who have been joined to Him, and partake in Him, and therefore partake in His unique, one-of-a-kind Sonship. He alone is Son, and yet by grace, we are now also sons.
By taking away Christ's Eternal and Divine Sonship you actually diminish just how profound and powerful what Paul says in places like Galatians 4:6 and in Romans 8.
There is an important concept and word in Christian theology here: Theosis. It's what St. Peter speaks about in his epistle when he says, "You have become partakers of the Divine Nature". We have actually become partakers of God, partakers of God's life, we have been received up, by grace, into the incomprehensible Life of God the Holy Trinity. The love which the Father has for His Son, an eternal love, is actually a love which we have been brought into by grace.
This is one of the most profound mysteries of our Christian faith. The one who has faith in Christ is not welcome into God's House merely as a servant or guest, but as a beloved child and heir. The love of God, which exists without beginning or end, between the Three Eternal Divine Persons of the Trinity, is the same love with which He loves us. That we should know God, not only as Lord, as Creator, as King, but to know the One Jesus has known for all eternity as His Father is now the One we too can call Father. The Father of Jesus is now our Father, by grace. And I, a wretched sinner, by the imputed righteousness of Christ which I have received as pure grace, having been clothed with Christ Himself (Galatians 3:27) should now be found in Jesus Christ before the Father, blameless and holy as He is, a beloved son. And having received this now, as pure gift, through faith; the fathomless mysteries of eternity are unimaginable:
"Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is." - 1 John 3:2
St. John speaks of an unknowable, but glorious, future. Now, no one should imagine that this means we shall be divine--we shall never be divine; but this mystery is part of our hope, and God's glorious designs for the future. In St. John's Apocalypse, at the end, the heavenly city descends upon the earth, and God is with man; we read there is no need of sun or moon, for the universe itself shall be illuminated by the Light of God. Let us not entertain idle speculations, but know that this is something so incomprehensibly glorious that it ought to bring us to a state of continued awe before God.
"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him" - 1 Corinthians 2:9
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, through He was RICH, yet for your sake He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich. II Corinthians 8:9
Christ as the Word/Logos has always been, John 1:1-18, when He Became Man he became the second Son of God (only in our minds by time), for Adam was the son of God, Luke 3:38. But Jesus is truly the First and only Begotten Son of God. But as anybody knows by Title the Son is Subject to Father. Jesus accepted this drop willingly because by doing so He was made lower than the angels, Hebrews 2:9. By which He also sanctify us as He calls us His children (Being Everlasting Father, Isaiah 9:6) see Hebrews 2:10-14.
For during Job’s suffering Job cried for a Mediator between himself and God, Job 9:33. So that to be our High Priest the Word became Flesh to become the Only Begotten Son so He might suffer for us all and call us to be adopted into His Family, Galatians 6:10; Ephesians 2:19; 3:14-15.
So that now I can see that after Jesus gives us a Body like His, Philippians 3:20-21. That Jesus Christ, God Himself, shall submit Himself as our High Priest, Hebrews 7:25-28; to His Father I Corinthians 15:24-28. That God may be all and all. Psalms 89:27 states Christ as Human was God Firstborn.
If you were to dig more deeply, study more thoroughly, you would be more astonished by the depths and richness of Scripture.
You subtract from our salvation when you deny the Eternal Generation of the Son; not only does this lessen Christ, but it lessens Christ's saving work, and the power and work of the Spirit both now in the present, and in the Age to Come.
The depths and richness of Christian theology is so good. Drink up, it will satisfy.
-CryptoLutheran