Son of God

Jn 19:7 “The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

In light of this Scripture, a Jehovah Witness would need to explain that if the Son of God is not God, then why did the Jews in 33AD consider what Jesus said to be blasphemous?

Since Ignatius of Antioch was the third Bishop of Antioch, martyred by Emperor Trajan in 110AD, and who learned the faith from St. John the Evangelist, it is fair to say his writings would reflect what he learned and understood from John. I quote only from the short version of his 7 letters, as these have been verified as authentic by Adolph von Harnack, Theodore Zahn, F.X. Funk and J.B. Lightfoot. I don’t personally know these guys, but I hear they are good. And they’re Protestant, no less!

The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians

[Address] Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church which is at Ephesus, in Asia, deservedly most happy, being blessed in the greatness and fulness of God the Father, and predestinated before the beginning [485] of time, that it should be always for an enduring and unchangeable glory, being united [486] and elected through the true passion by the will of the Father, and Jesus Christ, our God: Abundant happiness through Jesus Christ, and His undefiled grace.

[Chap.7]

There is one Physician who is possessed both of flesh and spirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; both of Mary and of God; first passible and then impassible,— [534] even Jesus Christ our Lord.

[Chap.18]

For our God, Jesus Christ, was, according to the appointment [609] of God, conceived in the womb by Mary, of the seed of David, but by the Holy Ghost. He was born and baptized, that by His passion He might purify the water.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.txt