A Oneness View of "Son of God" and "Son of Man"

Jesus

The bible calls Him "Son of God" as well as He is called the "Son of Man"

"Son of God" and "Son of Man" is what best describes the identity of Jesus. Taking the last word of each of the two phrases, "God" and "Man" is one of the clearest description of Jesus. He is "God"-"Man".

In the next few paragraphs I will try to take you to the definition or why is it that Jesus was called the "Son of God" and the "Son of Man". Why is it that Jesus of Nazareth was God-Man. I believe this is an important principle to understand who Jesus really was.


I will only deal with the definitions of the terms given above; "Son of God" and "Son of Man". Not to say that other theological aspects will be mention in a brief manner simply to explain and to support the efficiency and clearness of this topic.



Son of Man

"Son of Man" is found in the bible more than 80 times, and most of the times (specially in the new testament) refers to Jesus.
Jesus is called the "Son of Man" for two reasons. Prophecy and who Jesus really was, a man.

Daniel 7:13-14 says:

"I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed"

In this prophecy we clearly see Jesus being describe as the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven. This prophecy is fulfilled in the new testament when we see Jesus being born of a women as the scripture says in Galatians 4:4.

The next verse in the scripture mentioned above gives us a clearer example and more information of who this Son of Man was:
14" And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed"

This verse gives us a great example of this Son of Man, that unto Him was given dominion, and glory and kingdom, etc. And we see this being fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

In Daniel 7:14 the Son of Man is given dominion
And the fulfillment of it we see it In Matthew 28:18 Jesus is given dominion
And the rest of the other are also fulfilled in Jesus, in passages such as
John 13:31, Philippians 2:9-11, and more.

So now we see that Daniel 7:13-14 is a reference of Jesus, being called the Son of Man.
The term "Son of Man" is a fulfillment of a prophecy.

"Son of Man" is also a term use to describe Jesus' humanity.

Galatians 4:4 says:

"But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law"

The Son was made of woman. Jesus was actually born of a human being, a woman. This is a simple concept to grasp, Jesus was born of a woman, a human being.
The bible often times speaks of humans as "man" for instance in Genesis 1:27 the bible says:

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them"

Here we clearly see the example that this verse is giving the term "man" to both "male and female" and then the verse goes on by saying "created he them"
In other words, the verse says that God created "man", who were these?
The same verse says "male and female, created he THEM"
This shows that the bible often times speaks of both male and female as "man", or when we see the term "man" we can also say that it is sometimes given to humanity or humans, all depending in the context. This is why Jesus is called the Son of MAN because he was the Son of a woman, a human. For this reason Jesus was also a human, for her mother.

With this we can understand now that Jesus was born of a woman, meaning that he was born of a human, therefore this Jesus was a human! One hundred percent human.

Another example is that the bible also calls normal people "Son of man"
Psalms 8:4 says:

"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?"

This verse is talking about humans, regular people, normal people. The original translation of this in the Greek where we see the same verse (psalms) quoted in the book of Hebrews 2:6 is:

uihos anthrōpos

Keep in mind that this verse is only talking about regular people like you and me.
The original translation in the Greek of a verse that talks about the Son of Man being Jesus is Matthew 9:6 is:

Uihos anthrōpos

We clearly see the exact same translation of both terms given to humans and Jesus.
Jesus was a man, one hundred percent human. Everything that we have Jesus had. Everything that we go through as humans, Jesus also did, for instance temptation.

Son of Man is simply to describe Jesus' human nature.




Son of God

Let us not forget that Jesus was also called Son of God. This is where most of the people fail to understand who Jesus really was. They do not understand that Jesus was a man but He was also God. Jesus was God-Man.

There are some people that argue that Jesus was the Son of God as if it was a second person or someone separate. Some people argue that Jesus is actually a second person of a suppose trinity, and that He is the Son of the Father. The second person being the Son of the first person.
This argument is wrong, this is never what the message of the bible says. In the first place the bible never speaks of a trinity, it never mentions the word trinity, nor its doctrine. Not going too much into detail in this doctrine I want to state that this doctrine is not biblical, and if there is a trinity then it is not the God of the bible. The bible only speaks of one God indivisible (can not be divided). There is a distinction between natures (for the lack of better terminology this term is used), but not a separation of persons.

The reason why Jesus was called the Son of God is because of what we see in the gospel according to Luke chapter 1 verse 35:

"And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God"

What this verse is actually saying is that because of the Holy Ghost coming upon Mary she was going to conceive, and therefore that Holy thing was going to be called the Son of God. In other words, in consequence of the Holy Ghost coming upon her she was going to conceive and that was going to be called the Son of God, simply because it was conceived by the Holy Spirit. Jesus did not had an earthly father, His Father was God, the Spirit that has always existed. Jesus did had an earthly mother, His mother was Mary. And instead of the fertilization and implementation of a sperm, the power of the Highest overshadowed her. Both were needed for the two natures of Jesus and for Jesus to be God and at the same time human. The Holy Ghost conceiving Jesus and Mary giving birth to Jesus, making Jesus be both, human and God at the same time.

The Holy Spirit is God Himself, that is why that was going to be called the Son of God.
The Holy Spirit is not the third person of a suppose trinity, or simply a power. The Holy Spirit is God Himself, The Father is the Holy Spirit.

The bible says in John 4:24:

"God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth"

The bible clearly says that God is a Spirit, and also other passages support this. But God is not just a Spirit, but God is also Holy! Isaiah 6:3 says:

"And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory"

God is Holy and He is also a Spirit, God is the Holy Spirit.


God came to exist in a new form of existence (a human existence). Thus calling Himself "Son of God" to define (with this terminology) His identity in the incarnation. Son of God is to be understood as God existing in human form. Jesus was God, the Spirit that has always existed, the Father, but now existing in human form, still being God but with human nature, and still existing as a the omnipresent Spirit beyond the incarnation.


The term Son of God refers to God existing in a human form. The distinction is not a separation. God existed as human with the name of Jesus which means Yahweh is Salvation, and still He existed beyond the incarnation since God is omnipresent.

We see that the term "Son of God" is just a name given to Jesus simply because it was conceived by the Holy Spirit, with the help of the human Mary. And it is used to describe God as a human form.

The term "Son of God" is given to Jesus in reference of God existing in the incarnation and when you see the term Father it refers to God existing beyond the incarnation. This is where many people get confuse, they say that if Jesus was God then what happens with the Father? Are there two Gods? No, when the bible speaks of the Son it is in reference to God existing as human, in the incarnation, and when the bible speaks of the Father it is to say that God exists beyond the incarnation, since God is omnipresent. All in the same uni-personal God. Not as a separation of gods or that there is more than one God but God existing in human form and as the Father at the same time.

There is only one God, who manifested Himself as Jesus (1 Timothy 3:16)
And the term "Son of God" is only given to Jesus because he was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and the term Son of Man because He was born of a woman.