RE: Who Is Christ? Is He God or God's Son?

Christ is one of God's personified attributes (the Word of God), so he is God and is also distinct from God. He offers his suffering on earth to God eternally, particularly on the cross, for the forgiveness of sins.

The idea is that suffering has value in some way, and so it can be offered for a particular intention, whatever that is. Christ's intention was that God would forgive us, and so we ask God for forgiveness based on his merits.

https://youtu.be/eAvYmE2YYIU?si=ZWTY56bR-YDgpJTa

He *is* God's son, but it's metaphorical. God's son is only defined by being the personified Word of God, which is God. If God did truly have a son who was also a god, we would be bitheist instead of monotheist, so it doesn't work that way.