Hey Bible readers. Welcome to the Bible Recap Deep dive. In the Bible Recap Deep dive, we cover one week's

content. We take everything we read that week. We choose four or five questions from the Bible Recap

Recaptains

Facebook group, and we dig a little deeper into those. And so we're here with our hosts for this

podcast. We've got Kirsten McCloskey. Hello. And my daughter. How's it going? And I'm Tara Lee

Cable. I'll be here from time to time. But these are the two who are going to carry you through the deep dive every week. So without further ado, will you take us into our first question, Kirsten? I'd love to. Thanks. All right. So our first question is coming from day 274. The question is, does Jesus being called the only son from the father mean that he's less than the father?

And this is coming from John 114.

John 114.

We read that for us.

Yeah, I'd love to.

And the word became flesh and dwelt among us.

And we have seen his glory, glory as of the only son from the father, full of grace and truth.

Good question. I think really what the question is getting at or the sentiment behind it is,

is Jesus less than God? Did he become divine? Like if he came, if he proceeds from the father,

he came from God, does that mean that he's smaller?

He's not as equally God. Like what is that insinuating? And the short answer to this question really is

no. Jesus is not lesser. He didn't become divine. He's always been divine. He's existed before time

and is co-eternal with the father.

And this is weird because even the words father and son suggest that one predated the other.

Yeah. And I think that's kind of the heart behind why maybe someone reading this would think,

wait, do I need to, like, do, am I understanding

the Trinity right or all of them equal? Yeah. So the title's son of God, it's, it's suggesting

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