Son of God
Americannoun
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Jesus, especially as the Messiah.
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any person responding to God or acknowledging God as Father. Romans 8:14.
noun
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an angelic being
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a Christian believer
Etymology
Origin of Son of God
First recorded before 950; Middle English; Old English
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Lewis’s argument that Jesus couldn’t have been a “great moral teacher” if he wasn’t the Son of God, as he claimed to be, grabbed Mr. Murray’s attention.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Police say they will not leave until they have found Apollo Quiboloy, who calls himself the "appointed Son of God".
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024
She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is coming into the world.”
From Washington Times • Apr. 16, 2021
“The Son of God was born an outcast, in order to tell us that every outcast is a child of God,” he wrote on Twitter.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2020
The Son of God was dead as a doornail.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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