The previous video in this series into the nature of God asked why God needed to beget a Son. This provoked a number of responses questioning my logic. Admittedly, the Bible doesn’t clearly state why God begat a Son, the logos, whom we’ve come to know as Jesus or Yeshua. So much of what I said in that video is based on deductions made from the existing evidence. The reasoning from that video is based on the following known elements.
We know God as Yehovah. We know that Yehovah is almighty, meaning there isn’t anyone or anything more powerful than He is. We know He is eternal having no beginning and no ending. We know also that time is one of the things God created. Time is mutable. It slows down as objects speed up. We’ve proven this to be true through scientific experimentation. We can even calculate just how much time slows or dilates as speed increases. A person in a spaceship travelling close to the speed of light would age much more slowly than another person back on earth. Time and space are intrinsically linked and as such they are all part of the created universe of which God is no part, He being above and outside of all created things. We also know that Yehovah cannot be diminished in any way. He has told us explicitly that no one has seen Him, and that no one can see God and live.
From all this we deduced that the Son of God was brought into existence—begotten—so that he could serve as a bridge between the Father and His creation.
This is where some took exception claiming that God cannot be limited in any way, so to say that he needed a Son is to impose a limitation on Him. How can God Almighty NEED anything or anyone.
Fair point. So, allow me to qualify what is meant by that. I’ll do so with a simple illustration. Monopoly is a board game that is widely known. Let us say that you were to design a board game, like Monopoly. In designing that game, you lay down a series of rules that the players must follow if they are to win the game. If you, as the designer of your own board game, are playing it with friends, I also must obey those rules. You can’t say, “I don’t have to obey the rules, because I designed the game.”
You can’t expect the other players to obey the rules of the game while you bend them to give yourself an advantage.
When Yehovah purposed to create the universe and everything in it the way he did, he created a set of rules. For instance, there are four fundamental forces in the universe. The strongest is called, The Strong Force. (I know, it’s not a very imaginative name, but it gets the job done.) The Strong Force is what holds the nuclei of atoms together. No strong force, no atoms; no atoms, no matter; no matter, no universe.
The next one is the Electromagnetic Force. Electricity, magnetism, you know what I’m talking about. That is 100 times weaker than that strong force. The third one—we’re going for another really imaginative name here—is the—wait for it—Weak Force. It is ten trillion times weaker than the Strong Force. I won’t get into the physics. Suffice it to say, no weak force, no stars; no stars, no life. Got it. The last is very weak. If you were to take the strong force and divide it by a 1 followed by 38 zeros, you’d have the force of Gravity, and yet it keeps you from flying off into space, doesn’t it? These four forces operate within very precise parameters that are measured with incredible mathematical precision.
Why am I telling you all this. Because if you were to change the power of any of these four forces by even a tiny amount, life would simply not exist. The precision is incredible, and yet it is all fixed by God to the point that we refer to these as the laws of physics.
There are many other laws of physics, all interconnected in a delicate balance to allow the universe to exist. Think about that the next time you’re sitting in your living room, breathing air, drinking beer, and watching Sunday night football on TV.
My point is this. Yehovah God decided what kind of universe he was going to create and what kind of life would inhabit that universe and which of his creatures would be created in his image so that he could call them his children. He could have done it in any number of ways, making any rules to govern it that he chose, but once he made those rules, once he established those laws, He wasn’t going to change them, because they were His laws, His rules, and they were and are perfect.
In the universe in which you and I reside, God’s laws required him to have a Son, the Logos, through whom, by whom and for whom all things were made. Did God need a son? Yes, because His design for the universe called for an only-begotten son. That doesn’t diminish God in any way. He is just playing by the rules that he created.
Aren’t we thankful that our Father doesn’t break or even bend his rules. We can rely on him in every way. He does not change.
“with whom there is no change of shifting shadow.” (James 1:17)
I hope this explains what was behind the title of the previous video in this series, Why God Needed a Son. It didn’t limit him in any way. It just showed that we have a loving and righteous heavenly father on whom we can utterly depend.
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