Who cares?
A true Christian believes in Christ, not Church Dogma.
Believing that Christ exists is a dogma. Do you believe Catholic Christians do not believe in Jesus?
You do not believe that Jesus is God, I think I am understanding your position correctly. Do you believe He is one of many Gods (polytheism)? Or do you believe He is a lesser God? Do you believe that Jesus is fully man and not fully
divine? Possess by God maybe? Is that what you think the Spirit* is? Or do you believe in Modalism? Iām trying to understand what you believe, but you have not explained it very well. Can you explain what you do believe, rather than what you donāt believe?
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Jesus is Godās only BEGOTTEN son,
NOT āGod-the-Sonā.
Nobody BEGAT God!
What do you mean by this? I know what the Church teaches when she says ābegotten,ā but I suspect you mean something different.
Letās start here: Is Jesus fully divine, partially divine, or absent of divinity?
How are men begotten?
GOD is not begotten?
Jesus is divine- JUST like his God and Father.
Do you interchange the word ābegottenā and the word āmade?ā
In our Apostleās Creed, we say that Jesus was ābegotten, not madeā¦ā
We believe that Jesus, the second person of the Holy Trinity, has eternally existed (John 1:1-3; John 8:58). He became incarnate (John 1:14).
What denomination do you now belong to? Still curious. Or are you a āJust me and my Bible type of Christianā? Do you attend a Church? Iām curious how you came to believe what you believe.
Do you believe God was BEGOTTEN?
The Trinity was BEGOTTEN???
Again, you are confusing the word ābegottenā with ācreated.ā These two words are not interchangeable (theologically speaking).
No, the Trinity was not crated, God has always existed (hints the eternal present, āI Amā).
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Do you believe God was BEGOTTEN?
The Trinity was BEGOTTEN???
The greek word āmonogenesā often translated āonly begottenā should probably better be translated āone of a kindā or āuniqueā. I believe that would clear up some of the confusion here.
For thus point I quote the late Michael Heiser, a scholar, who studied a lot on the Trinity.
So, Jesus is not ābegottenā, as if born, but he is unique.
The discussion on the meaning of āmonogenesā is relevant, since it is part of our dogmatic confession as catholics, and we repeat this confession every mass (We believe in Jesus Christ, his only begotten āmonogenesā son)
Thank you, pdanoe, for insight on monogenes. While you are helping us, what in the world does consubstantial mean? The English translation of the Nicene Creed used to say, āone in being,ā but that was changed to consubstantial; I wonder about the translators sometimesāas a native English speaker, I donāt think Iāve ever spoken about the substance of a person, and āsubstanceā is often used as a euphemism for illegal drugs. When I recited the words āone in being,ā I could kind of guess at what I said I believed, but now I have very little idea.
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Hello Literalman 
Still new to this forum, so I do not have the āquoteā option yet. But paraphrasing, you ask me on the difference between āone in beingā versus the newer āconsubstantialā.
The nicene creed with greek text above : https://bibletranslation.ws/down/Nicene_Creed.pdf
It seems to depend on the translation of one word in the greek, namely į½Ī¼ĪæĻĻĻĪ¹ĪæĪ½ , homoousion, homo - ousion. āhomoā meaning āsameā, and āousionā meaning ābeingā or āessenceā.
I believe that āconsubstantialā would emphasize that the Son is of the same essence as the Father, whereas āone in beingā would emphasize that the Son and the Father is part of the same divine being. The idea behind āessenceā is that there are certain divine things, and certain created things. When one is divine, one is not created. So Jesus was not created.
More on this in wikipedia: Homoousion - Wikipedia
That still is no answer to how God created him!
He had a beginning!
Col 1:15- He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation.
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Sorry, Steve- that question makes no sense to me.
Besides, you donāt know God at ALL.
I suggest we immediately head to the greek text
Colossians 1:15 with interlinear greek (biblehub) : Colossians 1:15 Interlinear: who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,
We see that the word used is āprototokosā, proto - tokos, meaning āfirst gave-birthā (see the word origin part). So yes, in a biological sense, the word means something about having been born.
There is however also a very important biblical meaning about being āfirstbornā. A firstborn son would receive the double inheritance when the parents died. (an example of this is when Elisha asks Elijah for the double portion of his spirit. Elisha really asks to be the firstborn of Elijahs followers). Being āfirstbornā is a special legal position.
So one would rightly ask, in this text, Colossians 1:15, is the focus on the biological aspect, or is the focus on the legal positional aspect?
Only 3 verses later, in Colossians 1:18, we learn that Jesus is āthe firstborn of the deadā. Now how does that work? Is that a biological birth? Going back to Colossians 1:15, we read that Jesus was āthe firstborn of all creationā. That is a pretty big statement. Not just firstborn in his own family, not just firstborn among humans (how that would work I do not know), not just firstborn among all living things, but firstborn of all creation. I would say, surely, in Colossians 1:15 the focus is on the legal aspect. Jesus has a special position with respect to all creation.
For further bible reading on the word firstborn, perhaps start here: Strong's Greek: 4416. ĻĻĻĻĻĻĪæĪŗĪæĻ (prototokos) -- Firstborn
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See what I mean?
Not sure that anyone is able to grasp much from your one-liners. I gave you a fair try. Enough for now.
I take the words of Christ over yours!