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>in what sense is Jesus eternally begotten
>none,
what? then you're contradicting the bible.
This is the way that Scripture refers to this divine relationship (see Jn 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18 as examples). When did this take place? Before creation, since, as John notes, the world was made through the Word [the Son]. Such an "action" on the part of God takes place outside of his Creation, outside of time itself. It is not an "event" closed by time, but a way of being within God himself. That is why we say that the Son is "eternally begotten" of the Father.
Jesus, the incarnation of the Second person of the trinity, is eternally begotten, as the bible says, but you have to understand it as "proceeds forth from" not created or made or produced. Person and essence are distinct. HIs personage proceeds forth, eternally, timelessly, before creation was made. His essence is one being with the father and holy spirit.