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Michael Bird - The Divinity of Jesus in Early Christianity

Transfigured

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Is the Father Unbegotten?

In your taxonomy between true gods and divinized heroes, you have unbegotten or ungenerated as one of the things of true God. How do you say Jesus is unbegotten without calling him unbegotten? And what the church decided for was, okay, we'll call him eternally begotten to indicate his relationships and reliance on the father. So there were these, there were these different groups, both that I think at the level of the laity and more sophisticated manifestations of them.

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