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In Perspectives on the Trinity: Eternal Generation and Subordination in Tension (TH361), Drs. Wayne Grudem, Millard Erickson, Fred Sanders, Bruce Ware, and Kevin Giles explore a major question about the Trinity: Is God the Son subordinate to God the Father in eternity, or not? While Jesus certainly seemed to be subordinate to God during His earthly ministry, was this the case before His...

And he rightly pointed out that monogenēs doesn’t mean “only begotten,” it means “unique.” And what it is saying is the Son is unique, He’s like no human son. Dr. Moody’s essay was simply a linguistic study. He says quite emphatically, “I am not questioning any doctrine.” He nowhere questions the doctrine of eternal generation of the Son; he just says the Authorized Version and the New Revised Standard Version have translated this Greek word unhelpfully. And he was completely right, it’s not disputed.