But when we use the term begotten to describe the relationship between God the Father and God the Son, we mean something quite different from the relationship between a human father and his son. Because Christ is the eternal second person of the Trinity, his being “begotten by the Father” is not an event that takes place at a specific point of time, as our conception and birth did. God the Father did not become Christ’s father by an act of generation or conception that took place at a point in time.