Jesus was NOT the only begotten SON.

Context

This pericope begins with the Jews gathering around Jesus in the Temple portico, asking Him to tell them in plain terms if He is the Messiah (v. 24). Jesus answers by giving two reasons they should already know the answer to this question: His words and His works (v. 25). Jesus says that the reason they do not know He is the Messiah is not because He has failed to speak clearly or to manifest who He truly is through His miracles, but because they lack faith (vv. 25 - 26). Jesus says that His sheep know Him and hear His voice, but the Jews are not His sheep (vv. 26 - 27). To this point, while Jesus may well have provoked his listeners to anger, there is nothing in what He has said that warrants the charge of blasphemy. But then Jesus says, "I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish" (v. 28). Here Jesus claims for Himself the Divine prerogative of granting life to His sheep. The Jews knew that only YHWH gives life (Deut. 32:39), let alone eternal life. Then Jesus equates His power to keep His sheep firmly in hand with His Father's power to do the same thing (vv. 28 - 29). The Jews knew that the Father was "greater than all," but when Jesus said that He had the same power to preserve His sheep as His Father has, this was a clear claim to equality with God. Jesus further drives the point home with His assertion that He and His Father are "one" (v. 30). It is at this point - and with good reason, from their perspective as unbelievers - that the Jews prepare to stone Jesus. Jesus immediately challenges them by returning to one of the two reasons He has given for making clear that He is the Messiah - His works: "I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning me?" (v. 32). This is not an evasive response - and it does not follow that Jesus' subsequent response will be evasive, either. The Jews reply that they are not stoning Him for His works, but for claiming to be God, which is blasphemy, according to their Law (v. 33).
Some have argued that the Jews are accusing Jesus of nothing more than being "a god," on the basis that the Greek word theos ("God") lacks the article in this verse and on Jesus' use of Psalm 82 (see below). While many nouns without the article in Greek are indefinite, many others are not. Context, once again, is our sure guide for determining meaning. If the Jews believed that "a god" could grant eternal life or was equal to the Father in the power to preserve the Sheep, there might be some warrant for theos in this verse being rendered "a god." But this is manifestly not the case; while some might be called "gods," in the OT, none were ever said to have Divine powers such as these. Further, the Law against blasphemy did not pertain to those claiming to be 'a god,' but was specific to defaming the name of YHWH (Lev. 24:16), which any man did who claimed to be God or equated his power with YHWH's power. The Jews would be risking their lives if they were to stone Jesus on the grounds of the Temple for anything other than a Law clearly defined in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Immediately after quoting Psalm 82 in His defense, Jesus again returns to the testimony of His works (vv. 37 - 38). Jesus then repeats what He has previously asserted in slightly different words: "The Father is in Me and I in the Father." This further appeal to an intimate relationship in which the Father's intimacy with the Son is no less than the Son's intimacy with the Father incites the Jews beyond talking and Jesus must elude them and flee. It may be said here that if Jesus' appeal to Psalm 82 is meant as nothing more than an answer to the charge of blasphemy, as some commentators allege, He has completely undermined His defense with new claims of unity and equality with His Father. It would seem untenable, given that He knew the hearts of his accusers, that Jesus would provoke the Jews with such a statement, unless it was a logical extension of what He has just said.

Believers get the Holy Spirit after they accept Jesus, the free gift.

You are no Christian, stop trying to preach.

Of course I'm not a christian!

Christians are evil.

Anyone who accepts the brutal death of another so they can be saved, is evil to the core!

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It's called Astrotheology. One need not be an Atheist to recognize that the biblical story of Jesus paralleled preexisting mythology/belief systems and 'messiah' stories because they are all telling the story of the anthromorphization of the SUN and it's passage through the 'heavens'.

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Believers get the Holy Spirit after they accept Jesus, the free gift.

You are no Christian, stop trying to preach.

It was not us who killed Him, moron.

No Christian would do that.

He accepted His death to spare His disciples, incl. us.

The story of Christ is a made up.

The purpose of the story is to get you to accept the sacrifice of others.

To see yourselves as worthy of such sacrifices.

Christ is not one, he is many, and these have not yet been sacrificed, but when it happens, your kind will gladly accept the sacrifices and be glad.

You make me want to vomit.
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Thats a Lucifirean Idea and belief, Be careful

The story of Christ is a made up.

The purpose of the story is to get you to accept the sacrifice of others.

To see yourselves as worthy of such sacrifices.

Christ is not one, he is many, and these have not yet been sacrificed, but when it happens, your kind will gladly accept the sacrifices and be glad.

You make me want to vomit.
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No Christian would do that.

He accepted His death to spare His disciples, incl. us.

No Christian would do that.

He accepted His death to spare His disciples, incl. us.

No, you're stupid.

You can't spot an evil story and you are glad of anothers sacrifice.

It matters not if you killed him. Remember the crowd let a thief go free. Jesus was killed in his place.

The truth behind this story is very scary ... you no doubt would too stupid to even begin to comprehend what it is really about.
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Research the Egyptian god known as Horus and compare the stories of the bible to the movment of the SUN.

You are right to question the 'official' story but it sounds like your reasoning/interpretation is missing the mark.

Done. There are no parallels. Name one?

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You have followed a pack of Freemason liars.

Jesus is recorded in history by all historians of the time, friend and foe. Their word is final on the matter, whether you deny the written history or not.

You only lie to yourself.

’ Jesus’ unbelieving fellow countrymen, however, objected to his claiming this relationship to his Father, this special Sonship. And just as they were wrong in labeling Jesus as a Sabbath breaker, they were also wrong in their assertion about Jesus’ making himself equal to God because of ‘calling God his own Father.’
Watchtower 1974 pp 525-526

No, you're stupid.

You can't spot an evil story and you are glad of anothers sacrifice.

It matters not if you killed him. Remember the crowd let a up-riser go free. Jesus was killed in his place.

The truth behind this story is very scary ... you no doubt would too stupid to even begin to comprehend what it is really about.
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What did you see in the video friend? If you are still asking me what the 'parallels' are I cannot believe you actually watched it with your eyes open. The 'story' of Jesus is the bible is a mirror of previous mythology and stories of 'dieties' & 'messiahs' ... The details are all the same because it's astrotheology! Please explain how cultures that predated the alleged time of Jesus are telling the same story of the bible using different 'Gods' and dieties/messiahs???

This begs the question ... if Jesus was so powerful and so well known, how come the huge crowd preferred to let an up-riser go and kill him instead?

A big hole in the story I think!
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Think about it ...

Only days before he rode in on a donkey to supposedly huge crowds and his name was everywhere and everyone knew of his miracles and then days later they all said "Stuff him, let him die!"

It's nonsense!
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Some stayed on Jesus' side as the bible points out and some went into hiding because of fear but the majority abandoned him. Just shows you the human condition. People will take and take but when it comes down to it the majority will sell you out. Even so, Jesus died for us ALL.