Part 3 - The Son of God - Confessed, Contested, and Sent
The titles Son of God and Son of Man for Jesus are often simplified to mean divine and human, respectively. However, Scripture indicates that each title encompasses both dimensions. This six-part series examines key passages for each title and explores how they unite in one person.
Part 3 of six in the series Son of God vs Son of Man: The Two Titles of Christ.
The second half of the Son of God material moves from declaration to reaction. A demon names Him correctly and is silenced. Peter confesses Him and is called blessed. The authorities hear the claim and reach for stones. Paul, writing to Rome and to Galatia, sets the title inside the two facts that frame the incarnation — a Son born of a woman, and a Son declared with power by the resurrection.
What emerges is a title that no one in the narrative treats as merely honorific. That the demons recognize Him is its own line of evidence, and it connects to what Scripture teaches elsewhere about demons and their knowledge. That the religious leaders understood the claim as blasphemy tells us they were not hearing "a godly man."
As throughout, keep the framing post in view: none of this makes Son of God the divine title and Son of Man the human one. On the trinitarian question these passages raise — how a Son can be addressed as God without collapsing into the Father — see The Trinity and Names of God.
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Raised in a Christian home, I came to faith later in life. A family crisis in 2019 drove me to study Scripture deeply, and by 2021 I answered my calling to ministry and teaching God's Word.
