No mere human can call the Son of God "The Son of God" by understanding what "God" means or what that sonship means. We only know that we have always been unworthy to be called daughters or sons of God. Yet such is what Eve and Adam were created to be.
We call Jesus the Son of God because he possesses life and identity as a child of God--as we were meant to do. We, on the other hand, are dead--something that we are obligated to understand when first we are cognizant of our sin.
For these reasons it is important to remember that we flirt with blasphemy when we opine about Jesus becoming human "like us," because we cannot so much as claim that status.
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