Their were some early Christians who believed not that Yeshua had always been divine, but that at some point in his life he was adopted by Yahweh, either at his birth, or at his baptism, or his resurrection. Luke 3:22, it was believed according to Luke’s version of the baptism of Yeshua, a voice comes from heaven, and at least in some of the manuscripts say, “Today I have begotten you.” Of course that is a quotation from Psalm 22, but the person quoting it is implying that Yeshua was adopted by Yahweh, or begotten by Yahweh at his baptism, not at his birth or before. Now if one disagreed with that interpretation, and if one is a good orthodox Christian, one should disagree with that interpretation, because that’s not now Christian orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the way it is believed, think of it now, it didn’t exist of course in the first century in a fully defined way, it took a few centuries to develop. At that this time if one is an orthodox Christian, one is not supposed to believe that Yeshua was simply adopted by Yahweh at his baptism. If someone came to that person with that reading of that text in the Gospel of Luke, arguing for an adoptionist Christology, how would one argue against that interpretation? One might have argued, for example, by saying, let’s look at how this story is told, in say the Gospel of Mark or in other places, where that -today I have begotten you- is not found. One could say, well one is supposed to use Mark in order to interpret Luke, but the other interpreter could just come back and say, well Mark didn’t include it, but that’s not a denial of it. Luke obviously included it for some other reason.
One could also say, well that’s probably not what Luke meant, what the author of Luke meant to say, because Luke seems to have other passages in Luke and Acts, where it seems he’s accepting that Yeshua was divine in some sense before his baptism, maybe even at his birth, because the angels announce it, and there’s the worship of Yeshua that happens then. One could just come right back and say, well, who says? I mean this is the clearest key in Luke of when precisely Yeshua actually becomes the Son of Yahweh. It’s not contradicted by anything else in Luke, so one should take this verse much more heavily than what one is willing to take it.
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