Does God Have a Son?

What was in the beginning?

Genesis 1:26 NRSV
(26) Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."

John 1:1-3 NRSV
(1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(2) He was in the beginning with God.
(3) All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being

Hebrews 1:8-9 NRSV
(8) But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.
(9) You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions."

John 16:27-28 NRSV
(27) for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
(28) I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."

John 17:5 NRSV
(5) So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.

What did the disciples believe?

Colossians 1:3 NRSV)
(3) In our prayers for you we always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Did God say he had a son?

Deuteronomy 18:15-19 NRSV
(15) The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet.
(16) This is what you requested of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said: "If I hear the voice of the LORD my God any more, or ever again see this great fire, I will die."
(17) Then the LORD replied to me: "They are right in what they have said.
(18) I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.
(19) Anyone who does not heed the words that the prophet shall speak in my name, I myself will hold accountable.

2 Samuel 7:12-15 NRSV
(12) When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
(13) He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
(14) I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.
(15) But I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.

1 Chronicles 17:13 HCSB
(13) I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to Me. I will not take away My faithful love from him as I took it from the one who was before you.

Matthew 16:15-17 NRSV
(15) He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
(16) Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."
(17) And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven.

Hebrews 1:5-6 NRSV
(5) For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son; today I have begotten you"? Or again, "I will be his Father, and he will be my Son"?
(6) And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him."

Did Jesus say he had a Father?

Matthew 10:32 NRSV
(32) "Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven;

Matthew 16:15-17 NRSV
(15) He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
(16) Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."
(17) And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven.

John 20:17 NRSV
(17) Jesus said to her, "Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Did Jesus say he had a God?

Luke 6:12 NRSV
(12) Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God.