Every new Christian eventually wonders as to what sense God may be called the Father of Christ and Christ the Son of God.  The answer to this question is not a simple one.  First, one must recognize that the title Son of God does not speak of physical nature, for God is Spirit.  John 4:24  God is spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. , and Christ was the Son of God before He assumed a human body in Bethlehem John 3:16 For Go so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.; Galatians 4:4-5  But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them which were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.  Passages which use terms implying physical origin must be taken in a figurative sense Hebrews 1:5  For to which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten thee?  And again, I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son?.

     Second, the title expresses a unique relationship.  Christ distinguisshed His sonship from that of His disciples John 20:17  Jesus said to her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father;  but go to my brethern, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

He is begotten of God in a sense that no one else is John 1:14  And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.  Some call it "eternal generation," signifying the timelessness of this "God from God" relationship.

     Third, the title describes a relationship of equality.  The Son of God is no less than God.  When Jesus claimed to be "one" with the Father, He was speaking of a unity of "subatance" with the Father and thus all the attributes of deity John 10:30  I and my Father are one.  The Jews certainly understood this claim, for they took up stones to stone Him, protesting that "you...make yourself God" John 10:33  The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone you not, but for blasphemy; and because that you, being a man, make yourself God.

      Fourth, The title emphasizes Christ's role as a revealer of God.  He alone possesses the knowledge of the Father John 14:6-9  Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.  If you had known me, you should have known my Father also (and from therefore you know him, and have seen him.  Philip said to him, Lord show us the Father, and it pleases us.  Jesus said  to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip?  he that has seen me has seen the Father;  and how said you then, show us the Father?  I John 1:2  (For the life is manisfested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show to you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manisfested to us;)  and He is the sole mediator of that knowledge 1 Timothy 2:5-6  For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;  Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.  Therefore no one can know the Father except through the Son John 14:6  Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.  The narrowness of this way to God should be a sober incentive to take to all the world the message that the Son of God has come to impart to every person the life of the Father.