Luke 1:35

Luke 1:35: And answering, the angel said to her, "Holy spirit shall be coming on you, and [the] power of [the] Most High shall be overshadowing you; wherefore also the holy One Who is being generated shall be called the Son of God.

"Holy spirit." There is no article "the" in "holy spirit" (Πνεῦμα Αγιον) mentioned in this verse. Therefore, it is not a proper name or the person by whom, but the kind of influence: spirit as opposed to flesh, holy in the sense of separation from all fleshly defilement (see Expositor's Greek Testament).

"[the] power of [the] Most High." Also no article "the" in the original Greek for either "power" or "Most High." This further indicates the cause is the power of God. The name of God in Luke 1:32 is "Most High" and Jesus will be called "Son of the Most High." In this verse (Luke 1:35) He also will be called "the Son of God." The term "Most High" is equivalent in Hebrew to El Elyon or "the Most High God." It is common in the Hebrew language to say something and then repeat it in different words. This practice is found throughout the Old Testament. Thus, the "Holy Spirit" and the "Most High" can be considered as equivalent in this verse. It is referring to two attributes of the same divine entity, namely, the Father.

Not the Son of the Holy Spirit. Nowhere in the Bible is Jesus called the "Son of the Holy Spirit," but he is called the "Son of the Most High," "Son of God," or "Son of the Father." In her song of praise (Luke 1:46-55), Mary understood the "Holy Spirit" to be another name for God, as she also used the title, "Mighty One."

Greatness and holiness. According to Luke 1:32, this Son "will be great" and in Luke 1:35 he is holy by virtue of "being generated" by the Spirit and Power of God.

Son of God in a new sense. Note that according to EGW, Christ was God's Son prior to His incarnation.

• 1SM 226.2: Christ brought men and women power to overcome. He came to this world in human form, to live a man amongst men. He assumed the liabilities of human nature, to be proved and tried. In His humanity He was a partaker of the divine nature. In His incarnation He gained in a new sense the title of the Son of God. Said the angel to Mary, “The power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God” (Luke 1:35). While the Son of a human being, He became the Son of God in a new sense. Thus He stood in our world—the Son of God, yet allied by birth to the human race.

Begotten, not procreated. Jesus was begotten, not procreated. We are procreated. God first created mankind and gave mankind the power to reproduce, thus procreation. Christ was begotten of God, not procreated. Yes, there is a difference. And being that Christ, the Son, by virtue of being begotten of the Father inherits all the attributes of the Father, there wasn't a demand on the part of the Father for His Son to render Him obedience. Christ's very nature, because of His literal sonship to the Father, would cause Christ to think and to act just like the Father. Hence His name is Michael - "One who is like unto God". To be like someone is not to be that someone. The Son is a perfect reproduction of God the Father—as the Bible says He is the "express image of His person and brightness of His glory".

Trinitarian misinterpretation. The trinitarian view uses this verse and Matthew 1:18-20 to depict the "person" of the Holy Spirit as being Christ's true father since according to them the Spirit caused the conception. However, the New Testament without exception declares God the Father as the true father of Jesus. The holy spirit in these verses is not "the" holy spirit given that the article "the" is missing in the original Greek, but merely "holy spirit" without the article—an influence, not a "person".