Athanasius's third example to prove the eternality of the Son is the requirement of an eternal Son in order for the Father to be an eternal Father.
"Again, the sonship image is about the honor of God. Would it be honoring to God to say that he was incomplete? No. A father who has no son is not a father at all. Therefore, it is an insult to the Father to say that the Son is anything less than eternal...A son is the perfection of a father's nature" - Leithart, Athanasius, p49.
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