Beatty argues that Acts 13:33 places Jesus' begetting at the resurrection, not at birth.
1. Get Radical Faith with Beatty Carmichael teaches 'Adopted to Sonship 5 - Was Jesus born again? (P083)' as a Bible study on sonship and rebirth. 2. Beatty Carmichael is the host and teacher, and he says the topic is 'edgy' and likely to challenge 'what we've typically been taught.' 3. The episode asks what being born again means and whether Jesus was born again, then uses that question to explain sonship. 4. Beatty says a wrong doctrinal starting point can distort later readings of Scripture, and he uses a rocket ship missing the moon by 1% as the warning. 5. He reviews sonship as becoming a 'fully trained disciple' from Luke 6:40 and Romans 8:29. 6. He returns to the stone-block and sculptor image, where God chips away everything that does not belong to the masterpiece. 7. He links 'trials of sin' to addictions, torn-up marriages, sick bodies, business failures, houses lost, and car accidents. 8. He distinguishes 'tests of faith' from trials of sin and says Peter walking on water shows faith versus doubting God's word. 9. Beatty argues that the spirit of man was never dead, citing Ecclesiastes 12:7 where 'the spirit returns to God who gave it.' 10. He says Ephesians 1:4 means believers were 'chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world.' 11. He uses Genesis 1:11-12 to argue that seed reproduces after its own kind, so a change in seed line is required. 12. He says John 3:3-6 uses 'water' for fleshly birth and 'spirit' for a different kind of birth. 13. He reads 1 John 3:9 and says God's seed remains in believers, so they have been born of God. 14. He explains the Greek word Geneo by pointing to Matthew 1, Luke 23:29, and Acts 7:29 as examples of procreation language. 15. He reads 1 Corinthians 15:42-44 and says what is sown as a natural body is raised as a spiritual body. 16. He quotes 1 Peter 1:25 to say believers are born again 'not of perishable seed but of imperishable seed.' 17. Beatty uses Acts 13:32-33 to argue that Jesus was 'begotten' at the resurrection, not merely at conception. 18. He pairs that reading with Romans 8:29 and the phrase 'firstborn among many brothers' to describe Jesus as the firstborn of a new race of man. 19. The tone is teaching-heavy, diagram-based, and argumentative, with repeated pauses for Bible references and questions to the group. 20. Listeners who want close Bible-verse parsing about sonship and resurrection body language will fit this episode, while listeners wanting light devotional talk may skip it.
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