“Christ, according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the Holy Ghost the third. Each of these persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. . . .
“So, it is declared that the Father is God, and the Son God, and the Holy Ghost God, and that these three Gods make one God.
“According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction, if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one, we have but one. . .
“Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.”
~ Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
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Christ was not his own father, neither did Christ beget himself.
My Bible teacher explains it with a diagram, which I obviously can't show on here but I'll try to explain it.
First, there is a triangle. Inside the triangle is the word "God". Then at each of the three points are the words "Holy Spirit", "Son (Christ)" and "Father." So there is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. All three of them are God, but they are distinct from each other.
And Christ was not begotten by God the Father in the sense that you were using it. I think, for example, in John 3:16 when it says "...His [God's] only begotten Son" it means how Mary was a virgin but the Holy Spirit came upon her and then she was impregnated.
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