TodayI fathered you.’ Kiss the Sonor he will be angry and you will
perish on the way” (Psalms 2 : 7 , 12 ). This does not mean an eternally
begotten Son; it means the Son born in the world. It is a prophecy of
the Lord to come. That is why it is called a decision that Jehovah is
announcing to David. In the same Psalm it says before that, “I have
anointed my King over Zion” (Psalms 2 : 6 ); and afterward it says, “I will
give him the nations as an inheritance” (Psalms 2 : 8 ). Therefore “today”
in this passage means “in time,” not “from eternity.” To Jehovah the
future is present.102 There is a belief that the Lord in his human manifestation not only
was but still is the Son of Mary. This is a blunder, though, on the part
of the Christian world. It is true that he was the Son of Mary; it is not
true that he still is. As the Lord carried out the acts of redemption, he
put off the human nature from his mother and put on a human nature
from his Father. This is how it came about that the Lord’s human
nature is divine and that in him God is human and a human is God.
The fact that he put off the human nature from his mother and put on
a divine nature from his father—a divine human nature—can be seen
from his never referring to Mary as his mother, as the following passages
show: “The mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ Jesus said
to her, ‘What do I have to do with you, woman?My hour has not yet
come’” (John 2 : 3 – 4 ). Elsewhere it says, “Jesus on the cross saw his
mother and the disciple he loved standing next to her. He said to his
mother, ‘Woman, behold your son.’ Then he said to the disciple,
‘Behold your mother’” (John 19 : 26 , 27 ). On one occasion he did not
acknowledge her: “There was a message for Jesus from people who said,
‘Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, and they want to
see you.’ Jesus said in reply, ‘My mother and my brothers are these peo-
ple who are hearing the Word of God and doing it’” (Luke 8 : 20 , 21 ;
Matthew 12 : 46 – 49 ; Mark 3 : 31 – 35 ). So the Lord called her “woman,” not
“mother,” and gave her to John to be his mother. In other passages she
is called his mother, but not by the Lord himself.
[ 2 ] Another piece of supporting evidence is that the Lord did not
acknowledge himself to be the son of David. In the Gospels we read,
Jesus asked the Pharisees, saying, “What do you think about the Christ?
Whose son is he?” They say, “David’s.” He said to them, “Why then
does David in the spirit call him his Lord when he says, ‘The Lordsaid to
my Lord,“Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies as a footstool