There are 205 verses in the Bible that state Jesus is the Son of God. Here are some of the very explicit ones:
(Mat 3:17 NASB) "and behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.""
(Mat 4:3-4 NASB) "And the tempter came and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread." {4} But He answered and said, "It is written, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'""
(Mat 11:27 NASB) ""All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son, except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him."
(Mat 14:33 NASB) "And those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, "You are certainly God's Son!""
(Mat 16:15-17 NASB) "He said^ to them, "But who do you say that I am?" {16} And Simon Peter answered and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." {17} And Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven."
That should be enough evidence, wouldn't you say?
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> How is it possible to prove that the Holy Ghost was the father
>of Christ?
First, the Holy Ghost is not the father of Christ. You seem to have a modalist's view of what the Trinity is. To prove the Trinity, one must simply prove the following things:
1) There is only one God; 2) Jesus is God; 3) The Father of Jesus is God; 4) The Holy Spirit is God; and 5) The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are separate and distinct personages.
Clearly, if number one is true AND numbers two through four are also true,
we have a Triune God. The thing that is wrong with modalism is that it
states that all three are one person and one God. This is false as stated
by number five above.
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> Who knows that such a being as the Holy Ghost ever existed?
Genesis 1:2 speaks of the "Spirit of God" moving upon the face of the earth. God tells us in the second verse of the Bible that the Holy Spirit exists.
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> How was it possible for Mary to know anything about the Holy
>Ghost?
Well, is this actually important? I think that one can experience something that one did not know existed. Have you never travelled on an unknown highway and experienced sights you never knew existed?
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> How could Joseph know that he had been visited by an angel in
>a dream?
Perhaps the angel told Joseph that it was an angel?
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> Could he know that the visitor was an angel? It all occurred
>in a dream and poor Joseph was asleep. What is the testimony of one
>who was asleep worth?
As this was a vision from God, I would say that the testimony is very reliable.
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> All the evidence we have is that somebody who wrote part of
>the New Testament says that the Holy Ghost was the father of
>Christ, and that somebody who wrote another part of the New
>Testament says that Joseph was the father of Christ.
It says the child "is of the Holy Spirit" meaning that the Holy Spirit
enabled the event to take place.
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> Matthew and Luke give the genealogy and both show that Christ
>was the son of Joseph.
Joseph was Jesus' earthly father.
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> The "Incarnation" has to be believed without evidence. There
>is no way in which it can be established. It is beyond the reach
>and realm of reason. It defies observation and is independent of
>experience.
Yes, Christians practice a faith, NOT a science.
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> It is claimed not only that Christ was the Son of God, but
>that he was, and is, God.
Yes, He was God in the flesh. See my notes above regarding the Trinity and how to prove it.
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> Was he God before he was born? Was the body of Mary the
>dwelling place of God?
Yes, He was God before He was born in the flesh.
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> What evidence have we that Christ was God?
Remember what Thomas said: "My Lord, my God." There are various verses that indicate Jesus was God.
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> Somebody has said that Christ claimed that God was his father
>and that he and his father were one. We do not know who this
>somebody was and do not know from whom he received his information.
Again, we practice a faith, not a science.
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> Somebody who was "inspired" has said that Christ was of the
>blood of David through his father Joseph.
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> This is all the evidence we have.
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> Can we believe that God, the creator of the Universe, learned
>the trade of a carpenter in Palestine, that he gathered a few
>disciples about him, and after teaching for about three years,
>suffered himself to be crucified by a few ignorant and pious Jews?
Yes.
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> Christ, according to the faith, is the second person in the
>Trinity, the Father being the first and the Holy Ghost the third.
>Each of these three persons is God. Christ is his own father and
>his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both.
>The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was
>begotten -- just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as
>his father, and the father is just as young as his son. The Holy
>Ghost proceeded from the Father and Son, but was equal to the
>Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say, before he
>existed, but he is of the same age of the other two.
Again, see my method for proving the Trinity above and it will make a bit more sense. Also, this is the way of God, not of man, which is why we have difficulty understanding the concepts.
Michael J. Mahony Internet: igby@deltanet.com Home Page: http://www.deltanet.com/users/igby Contending Earnestly for the Word Ministries
"Therefore you are without excuse, every man of you who passes judgment, for in that you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. {2} And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things." (Rom 2:1-2 NASB)