Son of God
"[9] As applied to Jesus, the term is a reference to his role as the Messiah, or Christ, the King chosen by God.
Nontrinitarian Christians accept the application to Jesus of the term "Son of God", which is found in the New Testament.
[15] The Emperor of Japan was also called the Son of Heaven (天子 tenshi) starting in the early 7th century.
Egyptian pharaohs are known to have been referred to as the son of a particular god and their begetting in some cases is even given in sexually explicit detail.
[28] As a daring and unprecedented move, Augustus used this title to advance his political position in the Second Triumvirate, finally overcoming all rivals for power within the Roman state.
[30] The line between been god and god-like was at times less than clear to the population at large, and Augustus seems to have been aware of the necessity of keeping the ambiguity.
[30][32] The assumption of the title Divi filius by Augustus meshed with a larger campaign by him to exercise the power of his image.
Official portraits of Augustus made even towards the end of his life continued to portray him as a handsome youth, implying that miraculously, he never aged.
[28] By the end of the 1st century, the emperor Domitian was being called dominus et deus (i.e. master and god).
[34] Outside the Roman Empire, the 2nd-century Kushan King Kanishka I used the title devaputra meaning "son of God".
[41] This anticipates New Testament themes where Jesus identifies himself as the "Son of Man" descended from heaven in John 3:13.
[42] Similarly, in Daniel's account of the fiery furnace, a divine figure appears alongside the Hebrews, described as "like a son of the gods.
In a Christian view, the concept of "Son of God" is deeply rooted in biblical prophecies and typologies.
In Psalm 2, often interpreted in Christian theology as a messianic prophecy, the Lord says to the king, traditionally understood as David, "You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
The theme is echoed in the New Testament, where the writer of Hebrews applies this prophecy to Jesus, asserting His divine sonship and messianic role.
[45] These scriptural connections highlight the theological continuity from Davidic promises to the fulfillment in Christ, enhancing the Christian understanding of Jesus as the ultimate "Son of God."
In Islam, Jesus is known as Īsā ibn Maryam (Arabic: عيسى بن مريم, lit.
[57] In Judaism the term mashiach has a broader meaning and usage and can refer to a wide range of people and objects, not necessarily related to the Jewish eschaton.
Gabriel's Revelation, also called the Vision of Gabriel[61] or the Jeselsohn Stone,[62] is a three-foot-tall (one metre) stone tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew text written in ink, containing a collection of short prophecies written in the first person and dated to the late 1st century BC.
[63][65] The text seems to talk about a messianic figure from Ephraim who broke evil before righteousness[clarification needed] by three days.
[66]: 43 The choice of Ephraim as the lineage of the messianic figure described in the text seems to draw on passages in Jeremiah, Zechariah and Hosea.
