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We know it is Orthodox to teach that Jesus is the Son of God. But who is God?
What if God is angry, vindictive, or hard to please? Would you be glad to meet that God's son? Probably not.
How did Jesus come to be known as "God's son" in the sense of "God's second self" or "the second part of the trinity"? The process by which we come to acknowledge Jesus as God is vitally important.
If we start with assumptions about God and then say that Jesus is the son of the God we imagined, we will get both Jesus and God wrong. Sometimes, it is the things that we don't question that hide truths we need to know.
This is how I believe Jesus came to be worshiped as God by the disciples and the early Church.
