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be born as the Son of God in resurrection? What does Romans 1:4 mean when it says that He "was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness out of the resurrection of the dead"? Psalm 2:7, which is quoted both in Acts 13:33 and Hebrews 1:5, prophesied that Christ would be begotten as the Son of God in resurrection. How can we explain this? Christ was the Son of God incarnated to be a man. Strictly speaking, His human part was not the Son of God, but within His humanity there was the Son of God. Before His death and resurrec tion, He was the Son of God in humanity, but His human part was not the Son of God. There fore, He had to pass through death and resur rection in order to bring His human part into sonship. His divine part, which was the Son of God, did not need to be born as the Son of God, but His human part needed to be born and desig nated as the Son of God. Before the Lord's death and resurrection, He was the Son of God; yet whenever people saw Him they could still ask, "Who is this man? Is he the Son of God?" Since He was the Son of God, why did people still have questions about Him? Because of His human part. His humanity did not appear to be the Son of God. But through His death and resurrection,