Retrieving Eternal Generation mgr_9780310449515 Jesus himself said that some

Jesus himself said that some people will do seemingly “Christian” things in his name but will not truly know him

Speak II: Speaking the Truth in Love (26:47)

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Then in Job comes the anguished voice of the questioner

Retrieving Eternal Generation mgr_9780310449515 Jesus himself said that someAlthough the doctrine of eternal generation has been affirmed by theologians of nearly every ecclesiastical tradition since the fourth century, it has fallen on hard times among evangelical theologians since the nineteenth century. The doctrine has been a structural element in two larger doctrinal complexes: Christology and the Trinity. The neglect of the doctrine of eternal generation represents a great loss for constructive evangelical Trinitarian