existence. In fact, every human son ‘did not exist before he was begotten.’ ” 2. How can the Son be the Word, or the Word be the image of God?13 Human “speech is a combination of syllables,” signifying a speaker’s meaning as one speaks that meaning into the air. The words did not exist before the speaker chose to speak them, and they cease to exist once they have been uttered. How, then, Arian thinkers ask, can God’s Word always exist and continue to exist once it has been spoken? No human analogies
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