To: Dr. Eckleburg
Are you "required to believe" Psalm 82, verse 6?
That's the metaphor to which Aquinas is referring, you know, not any nonsense propagated by the likes of Joseph Smith.
If the Israelites were "gods" (literally, elohim, gods, judges, holy ones, saints) by virtue of receiving the Law through the mediation of angels, how much more are Christians exalted by receiving the sacred humanity and divinity of Christ through the mediation of the High Priest himself?
2 Peter 1:4 says that we are partakers in the divine nature. I've never heard a Calvinist sermon on that verse. Have you?
985 posted on
05/19/2008 3:32:58 PM PDT by
Campion
To: Campion
"They are foul words, indeed."
I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.
Psalm 82 verse 6
986 posted on
05/19/2008 3:37:59 PM PDT by
Petronski
(Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
To: Campion; Dr. Eckleburg
Those verses are addressed to Israel's judges not to Israel, especially to those who were corrupt. They had the power of acting like gods over the people.
987 posted on
05/19/2008 3:39:32 PM PDT by
1000 silverlings
(Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
To: Campion; Dr. Eckleburg
Partaker
Koinonos
Definition
a partner, associate, comrade, companion
a partner, sharer, in anything
of the altar in Jerusalem on which the sacrifices are offered
sharing in the worship of the Jews
991 posted on
05/19/2008 3:48:20 PM PDT by
1000 silverlings
(Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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