created or made but, rather, was the eternal and only begotten Son of the Father that it was truly a painful and enormous sacrifice for God the Father to give up His Son over to cruel suffering and death on the Cross for our sins. That is why it is written, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him (His Son Jesus Christ) should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). As Son of God, Christ was fully God and as Son of Man Christ was fully man. The Scriptures use both titles “Son of God” and “Son of Man” in referring to Christ because He was both.
What about Hebrews 1:9 where the Father says to the Son “…therefore God, even Thy God…” Why does the Father say “Thy God” to the Son if the Son is equally God with the Father. How can the Father be God to His own Son and the Son also be God? The great Reformed theologian and Christian writer Arthur W. Pink gives us an understanding to this paradox. In the context of the passage in Hebrews 1:9 the Father’s statement to the Son is made after the Son’s incarnation and when the Son assumes the throne to His eternal kingdom when it is established. The Son’s human nature (in the incarnation) was created by the Father so the Father in that respect was God even to His Son. But in His divinity Christ was equally God with the Father.
Another passage that is often misused by those who deny Christ’s deity is 1 Thessalonians 4:16 which reads: “For the Lord Himself (referring to Christ) shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God …” Because the passage says that Christ will descend with the voice of the archangel some teach that Christ, therefore, is an