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: 1000 silverlings
They had the power of acting like gods over the people. So you're saying one can be called "gods" without being made God? In other words, it was a metaphor?
Perhaps this liberal approach should be taken with Aquinas too. Or would that run too great a risk of destroying the bludgeon some would make of CCC460?
989 posted on
05/19/2008 3:46:21 PM PDT by
Petronski
(Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
To: 1000 silverlings
Those verses are addressed to Israel's judges not to Israel, especially to those who were corrupt.
Unfortunately, this thesis is invalidated by St. John's translation of "elohim" into Koine as "theoi," not "kritoi."
Unless we want to argue that St. John misunderstood Jesus.
1,053 posted on
05/19/2008 6:56:40 PM PDT by
Philo-Junius
(One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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