The Eternal Son

6:2.1The Eter­nal Son is just as change­less and in­finitely de­pend­able as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. He is also just as spir­i­tual as the Fa­ther, just as truly an un­lim­ited spirit. To you of lowly ori­gin the Son would ap­pear to be more per­sonal since he is one step nearer you in ap­proach­a­bil­ity than is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

6:2.2The Eter­nal Son is the eter­nal Word of God. He is wholly like the Fa­ther; in fact, the Eter­nal Son is God the Fa­ther per­son­ally man­i­fest to the uni­verse of uni­verses. And thus it was and is and for­ever will be true of the Eter­nal Son and of all the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons: “He who has seen the Son has seen the Fa­ther.”

6:2.3In na­ture the Son is wholly like the spirit Fa­ther. When we wor­ship the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, ac­tu­ally we at the same time wor­ship God the Son and God the Spirit. God the Son is just as di­vinely real and eter­nal in na­ture as God the Fa­ther.

6:2.4The Son not only pos­sesses all the Fa­ther’s in­fi­nite and tran­scen­dent righ­teous­ness, but the Son is also re­flec­tive of all the Fa­ther’s ho­li­ness of char­ac­ter. The Son shares the Fa­ther’s per­fec­tion and jointly shares the re­spon­si­bil­ity of aid­ing all crea­tures of im­per­fec­tion in their spir­i­tual ef­forts to at­tain di­vine per­fec­tion.

6:2.5The Eter­nal Son pos­sesses all the Fa­ther’s char­ac­ter of di­vin­ity and at­tri­butes of spir­i­tu­al­ity. The Son is the full­ness of God’s ab­so­lute­ness in per­son­al­ity and spirit, and these qual­i­ties the Son re­veals in his per­sonal man­age­ment of the spir­i­tual gov­ern­ment of the uni­verse of uni­verses.

6:2.6God is, in­deed, a uni­ver­sal spirit; God is spirit; and this spirit na­ture of the Fa­ther is fo­cal­ized and per­son­al­ized in the De­ity of the Eter­nal Son. In the Son all spir­i­tual char­ac­ter­is­tics are ap­par­ently greatly en­hanced by dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion from the uni­ver­sal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter. And as the Fa­ther shares his spirit na­ture with the Son, so do they to­gether just as fully and un­re­servedly share the di­vine spirit with the Con­joint Ac­tor, the In­fi­nite Spirit.

6:2.7In the love of truth and in the cre­ation of beauty the Fa­ther and the Son are equal ex­cept that the Son ap­pears to de­vote him­self more to the re­al­iza­tion of the ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual beauty of uni­ver­sal val­ues.

6:2.8In di­vine good­ness I dis­cern no dif­fer­ence be­tween the Fa­ther and the Son. The Fa­ther loves his uni­verse chil­dren as a fa­ther; the Eter­nal Son looks upon all crea­tures both as fa­ther and as brother.