God, in his infinate wisdom: Why did he only have one son..?
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Some things you need to think practically about. Why would God need to have a billion son's if one son could do the job of redeeming all of us? Besides, you've missed the point. The one Son made it possible for all of us to be the Father's adopted children. So, in one very real sense God does have billions upon billions of children.\n   May the Lord bless and keep you. May He let the light of His face shine upon you.\n                                 God's and your beast of burden\n                                                   Fr. john
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Yes this is absolutely RATIONAL. \n\n========================\nlets see how it is rational and makes sense. \n\n1.Say, He is God, One and only. \n\nGod cannot be more than ONE because if there were many gods besides God, then there would not have been such order in the universe, and each god would have taken away what he had created, and some would have lorded it over others. If there would have been many gods then each god would try to defeat others to establish his rule. \n\n(Quran 17:42-43) Say: If there had been (other) gods with Him, as they say,- behold, they would certainly have sought out a way to the Lord of the Throne! Glory to Him! He is high above all that they say!- Exalted and Great (beyond measure)! \n\n\n2. God, the Eternal, Absolute\n \n\nGod has to be Eternal then otherwise He would have a beginning. Suppose, we say God had a beginning, then there was a time when God did not exist. It means that he needed somebody else to make him exist. So there is somebody else who is God, not him. but as we agreed that there is only one God, therefore, there is no one else who make Him exist. When we say that God cannot be born, we are also saying that a creator cannot becomes his creation, because creation means what is in need of a creator. To be a creature, mean there had to be someone to create you. So if God becomes his creation, it means now he is in need of a creator. And this is absudity! As we know, A creation is not eternal. An eternal being is uncreated. We can conclude that the one God who is uncreated, has to be Eternal.\n\n3. "He begets not, nor is He begotten"\n\nIt follows by logical necessity that if God is one, and if He is eternal, Then obviously He does not beget , Nor is he begotten. Because if He beget, then He will have a child and the child will have to be God-like. So there will then be two Gods. Since we agreed that there is only one God, you cannot have two.  OR If he was begotten, that means he would have father. Then the father will be older than him and more eternal than him. and we cannot have one who is more eternal than "ETERNAL"\n\n4. And there is none like unto Him\nmeans He is unique unlike that which He has created.\n\n \n=====================\n\nHOPE THIS ANSWERS\n\n\n\n==============\n\n*******************************\n\n\nTO ....... poooks9\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\n\nHumans are not unique. I am a human, and i am not unique in the sense that i am not the only human. there are other humans as well. \nGod is unique means there is nothing like unto HIM. and He is not like anything. \n\nsame thing is mentioned in bible >>>> "I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me."\n[The Bible, Isaiah 46:9]\n\nnow what has blowing to do with this question.\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ansotukrv9vu2mEVQz183CXsy6IX?qid=1006051404952\n\n=======================
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He was the father of the Isrealite nation. His son Isaac was born when both he and his wife were way too old to have kids, and she was physically unable to have children. Yet he always had faith that God would keep His promise.
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I think there is only one God.  Men have called Him many things; God, Jehovah, Great Spirit, Allah... the list is quite lengthy.  I doubt that He really cares what you call Him, as long as you do call.
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It was only one lifetime  that this brother had, and he made it....\n\n 2 Tim 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;\n\n15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Yahshua Messiah. (Mind you they only had the Old Testament in those days......)\n\n16 All scripture is given by inspiration of Yahweh, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:\n\n17 That the man of Yahweh may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all righteous works.\n\nThe problem comes when the religious impostors refuse to teach the true Faith...\n\nJude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.\n\nThis Faith that all of the prophets and apostles, and even Yahshua followed was Keep the Laws of Yahweh and receive eternal Life.\n\nRevelation 22:12-16—\n12 And behold, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work will be.\n13 I am the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.\n14 Blessed are those who keep His Laws, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.\n15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and worshipers of gods (elohim) and everyone who professes to love, yet practices breaking the Law.
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God was speaking to the Trinity. The word God in the Hebrew language implies plural yet still singular (kinda like saying one family). There is only one God, but He is 3 distinct beings - Father, Son (Word), and Holy Spirit
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He is God, he always existed. This is difficult for man to understand because we are not infinite creatures. The finite can never understand the infinite.
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The problem is, you are assuming in your "if there is a God" case that you know what to do to "serve" Him.  But you don't have any basis to know that.  If you are talking about some generic God, there are infinitely many possibilities for how to "serve" Him (assuming He even needs serving).  On the other hand, if you are postulating a very specific God that you have heard about from other people or a book, then you have created a false dichotomy; there aren't just two possibilities (no God versus the God of the Bible), but rather infinitely many (God of the Bible, God of the Koran, God of a book that no one wrote yet, etc.).  So if you "serve" one of them (whatever that means), you are neglecting to serve others.\n\nSo we are back to figuring out what you believe, and going with that.  I guess if you believe in no God, you could still pick one of the infinitely many possibilities of God to "serve," but that seems awfully arbitrary, and your odds of guessing right seem so infinitesimally small that it seems hardly worth the random guess.
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I believe God wants us to know specifically who he is and how to get to him.  Therefore, he provides us Scriptures. I just can't believe we can make up a god of our own imagining and have it be the right one. Only one can be right, otherwise he would be contradicting himself.
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There are alot of gods but there is only one true GOD
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I've had it explained to me before like this:\n\nA man can be a father, a son, and a husband all at the same time. It's just different roles. It's the same way with God, he can play any of three different roles, but he's still only one God.\n\nWhether that's a good explanation or not, I'll leave up to you.
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To daredevil pup:  of course that's not God.  That's the EYE of God.  Actually, the sixth eye of God, I guess.\n\nMr. Eye of God:  I can't speak for others, but I forsake your Son for a very good reason:  it was his turn to buy at the pub over the weekend and he "forgot" his wallet.  Something about not having any pockets in his white robe where he could put a wallet.  Frankly, I'm just a little sick of that excuse!
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It has to do with the divine covenant between God and Abraham with Sarah.  Not between Abraham and Hagar.  As Ishmael was Abraham's son, he was not part of the covenant though he did too get blessings.  So to say, "your only son"  Gen. 22: 1,2 was only referring to the son of the covenant between Sarah and Abraham.    God promised that a "great nation" would come from Abraham, through Sarah - who at the time was barren.  God then concluded a formal covenant over animal sacrifices with Abraham, and at the same time, he revealed that Abraham’s offspring would be afflicted for a period of 400 years, even being taken into slavery.—Ge 15:7-21, which happened through his sons.  \n\nIn 1919 B.C.E., when Abraham was 99 years old, as a sign or seal to testify to the special covenant relationship existing between himself and Abraham, God commanded that all the males of Abraham’s household be circumcised. At the same time God changed his name from Abram to Abraham, “because a father of a crowd of nations I will make you.” (Ge 17:5, 9-27; Ro 4:11) Soon after, three materialized angels, whom Abraham received hospitably in the name of Jehovah, (Psalms 83:18)  promised that Sarah herself would conceive and give birth to a son, yes, within the coming year!—Ge 18:1-15.\n\nAnd what an eventful year it proved to be! Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. Abraham’s nephew and his two daughters barely escaped. A famine drove Abraham and his wife to Gerar, only to have the king of that Philistine city take Sarah for his harem. Jehovah God intervened; Sarah was released; and at the appointed time, 1918 B.C.E., Isaac, the long-promised heir, was born when Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90. (Ge 18:16–21:7) Five years later, when Isaac’s 19-year-old half brother Ishmael poked fun at him, Abraham was compelled to dismiss Ishmael and his mother Hagar. It was then, in 1913 B.C.E., that the 400 years of affliction upon Abraham’s offspring began.—Ge 21:8-21; 15:13; Ga 4:29.\n\nTo back track a bit - A year later Isaac was born; Ishmael was now 14. (Ge 16:16; 21:5) Five years after that, in 1913 B.C.E., on the day of Isaac’s being weaned, Ishmael was caught “poking fun” at his younger half brother. (Ge 21:8, 9) This was no innocent child’s play on the part of Ishmael. Rather, as implied by the next verse in the account, it may have involved a taunting of Isaac over heirship. The apostle Paul says these events were “a symbolic drama” and shows that the mistreatment of Isaac by the half-blooded Egyptian Ishmael was persecution. Hence, this was the beginning of the foretold 400 years of Israel’s affliction that ended with deliverance from Egyptian bondage in 1513 B.C.E.—Ga 4:22-31; Ge 15:13; Ac 7:6.\n\n“Furthermore, Abraham again took a wife,” Keturah, and thereafter fathered six additional sons, so that from Abraham sprang not only the Israelites, Ishmaelites, and Edomites but also Medanites, Midianites, and others. (Ge 25:1, 2; 1Ch 1:28, 32, 34) Thus it was that God's prophetic utterance was fulfilled in Abraham: “A father of a crowd of nations I will make you.” (Ge 17:5) Finally, at the good old age of 175, Abraham died, in 1843 B.C.E., and was buried by his sons Isaac and Ishmael in the cave of Machpelah. (Ge 25:7-10) Prior to his death Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his secondary wives and sent them away, so that Isaac would be the sole heir of “everything he had.”—Ge 25:5, 6.\n\nSorry that this is long, but I hope it helps to answer your question!
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Actually, you are incorrect that Adam and Eve only had two kids. We know the names of three of them (Cain, Abel, and Seth) but there were more. And yes, there were relationships between siblings, hence, wives for Cain and Seth. (Abel died single.) You will find familial intermarrying throughout much of Genesis because (as you point out) there wasn't anyone else. Consider also after the flood that familial intermarrying would have been the only option.
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Let's get one thing straight. The verses you quoted were statements made by Jesus; not Almighty God. The trinity doctrine that is widely taught in Christendom is really throwing you off. When Jesus is making these statements he's humbly acknowledging that in fact the "father" is greater than him. This is further reiterated in John 14:28. Why would almighty God who knows all things would not know for instance the day of Judgment?_Psalms 83:18 Notice that the scripture that you quoted (Mark 13:2) says in the 2nd part of the verse:"neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but the "Father." Again this stresses that Jesus or the Son of God doesn't know the day, but his FATHER would know. Clearly this shows that Jehovah God and Jesus are two different people and that this shows a distinction between them. If Jesus and God were the same wouldn't Jesus know the day of Judgement too?\nThe many other statements that Jesus makes further show that he is not equal to his father._Philippians 2:6: "who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God."_1 Corinthians 11:3, John 20:17. Similiarly, no son is equal to his father or the same as him. Sure they may look alike, talk, or act alike but you recognize them as two separate entities not combined in one. In John 5:19 Jesus makes it clear that he doesn't do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he beholds the Father doing. Also whatever that One does he also does in like manner.\nAfter reasoning from the scriptures you can conclude that from your statements above, Jesus was not only recognizing his father as greater than he was but was giving his father praise and honor by giving him the credit. You can also conlcude that if you read the Bible nodenominationally you would not come to the conclusion that God is part of a trinity which is contradicted in the scriptures. Instead Christ is "one" with God (not literally) in that they are always in harmony with each other just like a husband and wife were to be one as in united together._Genesis 2:24. The trinity really blurs the relationship between God and Jesus and is a source of confusion for many. You can find more information on this particular subject from this link. http://www.watchtower.org/library/ti/article_04.htm
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In the infinite universe it is very very likely that the number of Gods is infinite, too. Each God must have a God superior than herself. That is all to it. Either the Gods are limitless or there is no God at all. This is logic . The rest is nothing more than rubbish thinking or "feeling" as they might call it.....
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There is only one God