notes on Christ's divinity

Here's a quick footnote on the divinity of Jesus from my Lent Day One reflection.

Jesus is the human embodiment of the eternal expression of God. When we say a word, it comes and goes. When God says a Word, the Word remains. Isaiah 40:8 says "The grass withers and the flower wilts, but the word of our Lord stands forever."

God is eternal, ever-existing, and before there was anything in the universe to know besides Himself, He knew Himself perfectly. He knew Himself, and He spoke the flawless, complete truth of Himself in the form of the Word.

In this way, the Father begot the Son. The Father did not "make" the Son, for when a man "makes" something he by definition uses materials that are different from himself, like a man making a chair out of wood. When a father begets a son, the son is made of the same stuff as the father. (Kudos to C.S. Lewis for this point.) The Word or Son of God consists of the same eternal, everlasting divine stuff that the Father consists of. So the Word was, in the beginning, with God, and was God.