MacArthur's view on eternal Sonship

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Notthemama1984

Puritan Board Post-Graduate
I just heard my professor say that MacArthur denied the eternal Sonship for decades. He repented of his views publicly around six years ago.

Can someone varify? This is the first I have heard it and am really surprised.
 
Christ is the Son of God in two senses and yet One Person, is He?

(a) Eternally (generated) from the Father. Also known as "the Word".

(b) As a man, in the sense that Adam is called "the Son of God" in Luke 3:38 ?

In what sense did the Jews understand the term "the Son of God" in this place:-

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? (John 10:31-36)

How much understanding did the Jews of Jesus' day have of plurality within the Divine Nature and of the "Son of God" as an aspect of that plurality?
 
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