God the Son is the second person of the Trinity in Christian theology. The doctrine of the Trinity identifies Jesus as God the Son, who is co-eternal with and united in essence to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. As the second person of the Trinity, God the Son pre-existed before his incarnation as Jesus and continues to exist after with the Father and Holy Spirit. The term "God the Son" reflects the later theological understanding of Jesus' divinity derived from interpretations of references to him as the "Son of God" in the New Testament.

1. God resting after creation – Christ depicted as the creator of the world, Byzantine
mosaic inMonreale, Sicily.
God the Son (Greek: Θεός ὁ υἱός) is the second person of the Trinity in Christian theology.
The doctrine of the Trinity identifiesJesus as God the Son, united in essence but distinct in
person with regard to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit (the first and third persons of the
Trinity).
In these teachings, God the Son pre-existed before incarnation, is co-eternal with God the Father
(and the Holy Spirit), both before Creation and after the End (see Eschatology). Son of God for
some draws attention to his humanity, whereas God the Son refers more generally to his divinity,
including his pre-incarnate existence.
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 Stained glass window of Jesus Christ, Peter and Paul Cathedral,St. Petersburg, Russia.
 The phrase "God the Son" is not found in the New Testament although manuscript
variants in John 1:18 have led to translations including "God the One and Only" (NIV,
1984).[8]
 But the term "Son of God" is used to refer to Jesus in the first gospel of Mark at the
beginning in verse 1:1 and at its end in chapter 15 verse 39. In the Hellenist culture of the
New Testament milieu was a reference to divinity.
 Later theological use of this expression (compare Latin: Deus Filius) reflects what came
to be standard interpretation of New Testament references, understood to imply Jesus'
Divinity, but with the distinction of his person from another Person of the Trinity called the
Father. As such, the title is associated more with the development of the doctrine of
the Trinity. A clear expression of this Trinitarian belief is found in Matthew 28:19, "Go,
therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." John the Evangelist is understood to identify

2. Jesus with the pre-existent Logos or Word, the second person of the Trinity, "In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." [John 1:1]
 The term "God the Son" is rejected by antitrinitarians.[9]
Stained glass window of Jesus Christ, Peter and Paul Cathedral,St.
Petersburg, Russia.
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