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ABSTRACT

This article addresses the Son of God and the Son of man terminology from its OT canonical root. BEN-ADAM is the Hebrew for "Son of Man" used both in generic and personal senses. God sees and identifies a prophet as the “Son of Man” for example Ezekiel because of his submission to the power of the Spirit and consequently being qualified to speak for God, a thing that bespeaks the purpose for which man was created. Readers of this article have been cautioned by H.E.Tohdr (13) not to place the son of man of prophets exactly at par with that of the Son of man of Jesus. For he was of a higher substance with the Son of man identified by God. The Son of man is a title Jesus used in Mr.2:10;2:28;13:26 apparently to avoid the use of Messiah, which had a political overtone in Judaism. In Daniel 7:13-14 one like the Son of man is given universal domino. Jesus used the Son of man and Son of God interchangeably (Matth.16:13-17). Jesus as it is applied to John 5:18 b, he said that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God. The same thought is frequently emphasized that all men should honour the Son just as they honour the Father (John 5:23). The Jews clearly understood in the Jewish setting as meaning God, or equal with God. This article shows that it is not a denier the word may not have other meanings but the deity is implied in the words as applied to Jesus. This article employed the Library research method and reviewed critical literature on the subject. The objective of the study was for bible-believers who have taken the phrase "Son of God" refers to in some instances the virgin birth of Christ is doubtful. But this was not the origin of His person and that did not make Him the Son of God. The article concludes that the miracle by which the eternal Son of God became flesh was wrought by the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, his birth was a miracle and absolute sense of the word, a virgin birth. But never has any in history thought Holy Spirit as the Father of Jesus.