Jesus Christ: Son of God and God
Is Christ Jesus the Son of God, or is He God? What is specific to Christianity, and not shared by any other religion, is that when we hear the word "God," we immediately understand that Christianity specifically does not present "God," but "God the Father." Because in correct Christian doctrine, we do not have any discourse about "God," but rather we have a specific discourse about the "Fatherhood of God," "God the Father." And the rest of the doctrine is: "God the Father is the Father of our Lord and our God and our Savior and our King, Jesus Christ." Therefore, "God" is "the Father," and any talk about God without defining God as Father is quasi-Christian, but not necessarily Christian. Thus, the answer to the question of whether the Son can be both "Son" and "God" is not complicated. As long as the word "God" is the name of the Father, then the question in its correct form becomes: Is the Son of the Father like the Father? If the Father is God, is the Son also God? The answer: Yes, absolutely. But why insist on this faith? First: Because humanity is called to a greater grace, which is adoption, the greatest thing the Father offers. Second: Because this grace is from God, and not from the cosmic order, nor from biological procreation, but it is the participation of humanity in the special relationship between the Father and the Son. Third: Because this grace is the eternal destiny of every human, which is the greatest that can be said about the eternal destiny of humanity: that he is a son of the Father. Accordingly, the answer to the question becomes easy, as long as the name "God" means the Father, and "God" does not mean without Fatherhood.

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Grace Jin Drexel, the daughter of a well-known Chinese pastor recently detained in China’s crackdown on underground churches, is asking Christians around the world to remember and pray for believers in China.
In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Drexel — an American citizen and Senate staffer — said her father, Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, was arrested at his home in Beihai, Guangxi, on Oct. 10. He’s accused of “illegally using information networks,” a charge she says is clearly political and meant to silence him.
Around the same time, about 30 other Zion Church leaders and members from cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen were also arrested or went missing.
Pastor Jin, who took part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, helped start Zion Church in 2007 — one of China’s largest unregistered house churches. Even though authorities shut it down in 2018, the church continues to meet and grow, both in person and online.
Drexel urged, “Please don’t forget us. Don’t forget the Christians in China.”
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