The Son of God. Being a son can mean more than one thing, and we will try to determine some of the things of what the son-ship of Jesus entails. What actually makes him the Son?

Before the earth was created, God the Father had a son in the Spirit. It was his very first spirit son. The name of this son was Jehovah. Like all other spirit sons and daughters of God, Jehovah was born to earth.

7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12:7)

The spirit can not return unto God unless it was there before! So it was. When Jehovah was born he was then given the name Jesus.

God the Father only had one Son in mortality. When God the Father found favor with virgin Mary, and decided that she was going to be the vessel in the which a Jehovah was to be born to the earth, the son-hood of Jehovah/Jesus thus became two-fold; Spiritual and physical.

Jesus was the Son in that he repeated the works of the Father. There is nothing unique in a son repeating the actions of his father, in fact, it is a universal occurrence. But in this Father/Son relationship there is an enormous difference: The Father is a perfect being, always doing the right thing in the right way, and Jesus was also such a perfect being, capable of lovingly copying the acts of his Father.

19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. (John 5:19-21)

So, Jesus became a Son of God in heaven, and he was born as a Son of God on the earth. And he confirmed his son-ship by the way he lived his life and by the way he died and was resurrected.