the Son
noun
: the second person of the Trinity in the Christian religion : Jesus Christ
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
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Belief in the Triune God and in Christ, the Son, unites us (I John 5:1), along with so many other core truths of the Christian faith.
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Maureen MacKey, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Robert Trebor, who portrayed the serial killer known as the Son of Sam in a CBS telefilm and the scheming merchant Salmoneus on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its sister series, Xena: Warrior Princess, has died.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
The Satanic Grotto's rally outside drew hundreds of Christian counter-protesters because of the Grotto's satanic imagery, and its indoor ceremony included denouncing Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the Son of God.
—CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
In his breakout year of 1985, Trebor appeared as a reporter in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo, as a copy boy in Bob Clark’s Turk 182 and as the Son of Sam (real name: David Berkowitz) in the TV movie Out of the Darkness.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
To help set the film apart from other Holocaust dramas, Geller took the Son of Saul and Zone of Interest approach by leaving much of the concentration camp atrocities to the imagination of the viewer.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Another theologian noted that, if true, this would make the Son of God functionally a eunuch.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
In February, the Son Jarocho Music Festival celebrates Mexico’s folkloric music style in the eastern city of Veracruz.
—Meagan Drillinger, AFAR Media, 22 Jan. 2025
Their conversation points to the poem’s second radical choice: God and the Son are neither identical nor coexistent.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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Maureen MacKey, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Robert Trebor, who portrayed the serial killer known as the Son of Sam in a CBS telefilm and the scheming merchant Salmoneus on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its sister series, Xena: Warrior Princess, has died.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
The Satanic Grotto's rally outside drew hundreds of Christian counter-protesters because of the Grotto's satanic imagery, and its indoor ceremony included denouncing Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the Son of God.
—CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
In his breakout year of 1985, Trebor appeared as a reporter in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo, as a copy boy in Bob Clark’s Turk 182 and as the Son of Sam (real name: David Berkowitz) in the TV movie Out of the Darkness.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
To help set the film apart from other Holocaust dramas, Geller took the Son of Saul and Zone of Interest approach by leaving much of the concentration camp atrocities to the imagination of the viewer.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Another theologian noted that, if true, this would make the Son of God functionally a eunuch.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
In February, the Son Jarocho Music Festival celebrates Mexico’s folkloric music style in the eastern city of Veracruz.
—Meagan Drillinger, AFAR Media, 22 Jan. 2025
Their conversation points to the poem’s second radical choice: God and the Son are neither identical nor coexistent.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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“The Son.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Son. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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