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To the Church, the relationship between God the Father and God the Son (Jesus) isn’t the same as the relationship between human parents and children. Human fathers aren’t fathers before their sons or daughters are born. If you were an only child, for example, could your dad ever have been called a father before you existed? No. Until a son or daughter is born, no man is a father.

So if you think in those terms, you may think that God the Father didn’t exist before the Son (Jesus) was born. But the Church says that God the Father has always been the Father. So if the Father has always been the Father, then the Son (Jesus) has always been, too. Jesus is the eternal Son of the Father. The Father didn’t exist without the Son for even one instant, one second or microsecond, because the Father was always Father and the Son was always Son.