Son of God
Caesar the Son of God
There was an annual burning of incense at the temples of Rome where the faithful confirmed their allegiance and acceptance of Caesar as the Son of God.
Apotheosis
Augustus Caesar, whose real name was Octavius, was the first in Rome to receive the title APOTHEOS. That title and office of power meant he appointed gods and the authority of that office literally raised him to the rank of god.
Since history repeats itself the historical significance of this can be very enlightening for those who want to know the whole truth and provide for it.
Augustus Caesar claimed to be a god or at least the Apotheos of Rome. Paul said there are gods many.
On the coin was the graven image of the "son of the Divine Augustus" run through the temples of Rome. Octavian was called "Augustus Caesar, the savior of the whole world” by all the people who saw his exercising authority as a solution to the world's problems. He was also called the Father of Rome and the Son of God.
He was also called the Savior of the world of Rome in the minds of many people who believed that his power as Emperor was able to establish “Pease on earth,” with his "Pax Romana".
Evidently, the Pharisees had the coin in their possession. This was a violation of their own laws "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" nor have "any other gods before the God" of heaven.
Son of God in the Bible
The first place you see the phrase Son of God is in Daniel 3:25 "He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."
But then we begin to see it of in:
- Matthew 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
- Matthew 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
- Matthew 8:29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
- Matthew 14:33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.
- Matthew 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
- Matthew 26:63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
- Matthew 27:40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
- Matthew 27:43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
- Matthew 27:54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
- Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
- Mark 3:11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
- Mark 15:39 And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
- Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
- Luke 3:38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
- Luke 4:3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
- Luke 4:9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
- Luke 4:41 And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
- Luke 8:28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
- Luke 22:70 Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.
- John 1:3
4 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
- John 1:49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
- John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten[1] Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].
- John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten [1] Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
- John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten[1] Son of God.
- Hebrews 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten[1] [son],
- John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
- John 9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
- John 10:36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
- John 11:4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
- John 11:27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
- John 19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
- John 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
- Acts 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
- Acts 9:20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
- Romans 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
- 2 Corinthians 1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
- Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
- Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
- Hebrews 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
- Hebrews 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
- Hebrews 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
- Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
- 1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten[1] Son into the world, that we might live through him.
- 1 John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
- 1 John 5:5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
- 1 John 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
- 1 John 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
- 1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
- 1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
- Revelation 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
Other called Sons of God
“Hail Caesar, the son of god, the king of kings, and the source of peace”
In 42 BC, Julius Caesar was deified as "the divine Julius" (divus Iulius) after his assassination. Octavian who would take the title of Augustus Caesar the Savior of Rome in 27 BC. He also became known as divi Iuli filius (son of the divine Julius). This was also reduced to divi filius translated son of the god.
The Emperor Tiberius from 14 to 37 AD was accepted as the son of divus as Hadrian was called the son of divus. Even the Emperor Domitian was called dominus et deus (i.e. master and god). They were all called Patronus and were the "Fathers" of the earth.
Early Christians did not eat at their tables because their dainties were deceitful meats. Christians did not have an appetite for those "dainties" because they were the wages of unrighteousness provided by men who exercise authority one over the other.
Of course a common term for gods or theos in the Greek was a ruling Judge of the courts and the law. Caesar as the Apotheos of Rome appointed the judges of the courts throughout the Empire which is why there were "gods many".
John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
The Deuteronomy the Dead Sea Scrolls refer to the sons of God rather than the sons of Israel and the Septuagint reads similarly. And the Midrashic text 4Q174 refers to the Davidic messiah as his son, with 4Q246 refers to a figure who "will be called the son of God" and also the "son of the Most High" with this figure representing the royal messiah.
Matthew 21:9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest... And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,
Of course Melchizedek is referred to in 11Q13 as god the divine judge.
The Sanhedrin had become a sort of legislation and court which it was never meant to be and replacing the cities of refuge.
Children of God
Matthew 5:9 Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Luke 20:36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
John 11:52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Romans 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Romans 9:8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 1 John 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 3439 μονογενής monogenes [mon-og-en-ace’] from 3441 only and 1096 be; adj; TDNT-4:737,607; [{See TDNT 502 }] AV-only begotten 6, only 2, only child 1; 9
- 1) single of its kind, only
- 1a) used of only sons or daughters (viewed in relation to their parents)
- 1b) used of Christ, denotes the only begotten son of God
- 1) single of its kind, only