Son Of God Is Not A Term of Divinity.

 I happened to be  Listening  to Matt Slicks radio program the other day and heard him make this shocking statement. Matt Slick Actually Said This On His Radio Program :

 "Son of God is a term of divinity and if not, then why the term Son of man used for Jesus?"

 I was a little floored as I have never heard anyone use that argument before. I neither  find it very compelling or persuasive in any way. I had always thought it was because of the passage in John 10:30. Further I had taken the following statements from Slick himself from his Carm board as an apologetic for people to use in defense of that doctrine. Slick writes:

"Son of God, Son of Man.

1. Does the term "Son of God" mean that Jesus is not God? If so, then does the term "Son of Man" mean that Jesus is not a man?
2. Likewise, if the term "Son of Man" means that Jesus is a man, then what does the term "Son of God" imply?" Link 

I have to say I almost laughed out loud at the argument.The two terms: "Son of God" and "Son of man" are not a distinction  or 2 sides of the coin between a person of the trinity Known as the "Son of God" and  him becoming a man; but rather Son of God is a distinction between God, as in reference to God the Father being his actual Father by miraculously siring and overshadowing  the virgin  and Jesus as a  genuine man as the only son of God of the promise .. Son of man refers to his flesh ie Body, soul, and human Spirit, and him being an actual man by way of his mother. Neither term for Jesus is independent of the incarnation. Jesus did not exist independent of the incarnation. They the two terms simply distinguish two parental aspects one of God and one of his mother. The following 3 passages John 5:18, 10:30, and 19:7  that  I deal with below are  the main passages most Trinitarians use for their doctrine of the title "Son of God" as meaning a title of divinity, which is a rather weak interpretation as they view it and as an argument in my estimation.
 I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying,
  For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?  (John 10:30-36)

 Son of God is the phrase the Trinitarians focus upon because they see that as proof positive of one their persons of the Trinity when that is not the focus of the event or what Jesus is saying at all. What the Jews saw was a man claiming to be God or equal to God.
 If son of God is  term of divinity then why all the terms used of men and angels as sons of God? 

Note the following passages:

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Job 38:7  Morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for Joy.

Daniel 3:25 the fourth man in the fire one like the son of God.

  

Luke 3:38 Adam was the son of God.

  Romans 8:14.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 

Further this is what happens when you vacuum isolate the following passage without considering the other passages on the subject. A good example would be by isolating John 19:7 or John 5:18.

"For this cause therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God."

There was no law about making yourself the Son of God anywhere that can be found in scripture. The blasphemy is there was only one God and Jesus seemed to making himself equal as being a man with God and would be another God; for it takes two to be equal as the Jews only knew of One God. What they did not understand was that he was the One God in flesh.  The law was as follows and was two or three passages I suspect they were thinking of:

whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death” (Exodus 31:15).

Deuteronomy 4:16
So that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman.

"He who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him" (Lev. 24:16). 

The passages are not just talking about idols but men and women claiming to be something they are not and that is what the Jews of Jesus time saw.

The Son of God is not a term of divinity, nor was it ever a term independent of the incarnation at last in usage for Jesus as it was used before of others.