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To: angelo;all
John 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

30,495 posted on 02/27/2002 8:40:51 AM PST by vmatt
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To: vmatt
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? (John 10:34):

Do you know where this is from?

Ps.82

[0] A Psalm of Asaph.
[1] God has taken his place in the divine council;
in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
[2] "How long will you judge unjustly
and show partiality to the wicked? [Selah]
[3] Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
[4] Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
[5] They have neither knowledge nor understanding,
they walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
[6] I say, "You are gods,
sons of the Most High, all of you;
[7] nevertheless, you shall die like men,
and fall like any prince."
[8] Arise, O God, judge the earth;
for to thee belong all the nations!

Jesus suggests that since God called human judges 'gods' (with a small 'g'), then there was nothing inappropriate in him calling himself the Son of God. Of course this takes the meaning of Psalm 82 completely out of context. The entire point is that the judges aren't really gods. They stand in God's place when they judge over life and death matters. But they are not divine beings; they "die like men, and fall like any prince". Psalm 82 in no way supports the concept of a multiplicity in the godhead.

30,566 posted on 02/27/2002 10:44:38 AM PST by malakhi
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To: vmatt; angelo
John 10:33
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

They still stone Him today, for exactly the same reason: "God CANNOT make Himself into the form af a man - flesh."


Job and his friends had some pretty well entrenched ideas about what GOD could or could not do, likewise.
30,645 posted on 02/27/2002 12:49:14 PM PST by Elsie
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