ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu’apulelulu Sepitema 8, 2022

JESUS THE SON

KO SISU KO E ‘ALO

1 JOHN 4:15

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

1 SIONE 4:15

‘Ilonga ‘a ia kuo ne fakamo‘oni ko Sīsū ko e ‘Alo ‘o e ‘Otua, ‘oku nofo ma‘u ‘a e ‘Otua ‘iate ia mo ia ‘i he ‘Otua.

 

Solus Christus - Christ Alone - Ko Kalasi pe   

To the objection that if Christ be properly God, He is improperly called the Son of God, it has been already answered that when one person is compared with another, the name God is not used indefinitely, but is restricted to the Father, regarded as the beginning of the Godhead, not by essentiating, as fanatics absurdly express it, but in respect of order.

In this sense are to be understood the words which Christ addressed to the Father: "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent" (John 17:3). For speaking in the person of the Mediator, He holds a middle place between God and man; yet so that His majesty is not diminished thereby. For though He humbled (emptied) Himself, He did not lose the glory which He had with the Father, though it was concealed from the world.

JOHN CALVIN