Milkman59: Here is more information. Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came-and Scripture cannot be broken- 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
Here Jesus cites Psalm 82:6, which refers to unjust human judges and calls them gods. What exactly did Jesus mean here? I’ve heard the general “lesser to greater” argument but hadn’t previously considered this text in depth.
one modern commentator has said that what our Lord is doing is simply using an a fortiori argument. That is for a still stronger reason if mere men may be called gods then surely I may be called the Son of God. And it’s not blasphemy for me to be called the Son of God if mere men, unjust judges should be called gods.
Another response given is that Jesus is repelling the technical charge, and that it’s not blasphemy to call someone God who really is God. So if you can call human judges gods then surely you can call someone who is sanctified and sent into the world the Son of God.
This may be the sense that was intended, but S. Lewis Johnson then goes a little deeper: the typology of judges, as a type of God and representing God, and, in the type, showing the unity between the human ruler and God:
Why were judges called gods? Now that’s not the only place. In a couple of other places in the Old Testament they’re also called gods. Why are they called gods? Why is a judge called a god in the Bible?
Obviously it’s not God in the sense of one who possesses full deity, but yet there is some relationship. There is some form of representative unity that exists between a human being called a god and the great Triune God in heaven. Well, judges did have a relationship of limited union with God because they were their divinely delegated representatives. In Israel, a judge was one who should judge under God, and should judge with the judgment of God. In that sense they were in limited union with God, very limited union, similar to Paul’s statement in Romans 13 when he calls the magistrates of the cities, ministers of God.
two430: MY OPINION!! We all have different beliefs on many things. Religion, politics, how we should raise our kids, etc..... this should not be put on here.
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came-and Scripture cannot be broken- 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
Here Jesus cites Psalm 82:6, which refers to unjust human judges and calls them gods. What exactly did Jesus mean here? I’ve heard the general “lesser to greater” argument but hadn’t previously considered this text in depth.
one modern commentator has said that what our Lord is doing is simply using an a fortiori argument. That is for a still stronger reason if mere men may be called gods then surely I may be called the Son of God. And it’s not blasphemy for me to be called the Son of God if mere men, unjust judges should be called gods.
Another response given is that Jesus is repelling the technical charge, and that it’s not blasphemy to call someone God who really is God. So if you can call human judges gods then surely you can call someone who is sanctified and sent into the world the Son of God.
This may be the sense that was intended, but S. Lewis Johnson then goes a little deeper: the typology of judges, as a type of God and representing God, and, in the type, showing the unity between the human ruler and God:
Why were judges called gods? Now that’s not the only place. In a couple of other places in the Old Testament they’re also called gods. Why are they called gods? Why is a judge called a god in the Bible?
Obviously it’s not God in the sense of one who possesses full deity, but yet there is some relationship. There is some form of representative unity that exists between a human being called a god and the great Triune God in heaven. Well, judges did have a relationship of limited union with God because they were their divinely delegated representatives. In Israel, a judge was one who should judge under God, and should judge with the judgment of God. In that sense they were in limited union with God, very limited union, similar to Paul’s statement in Romans 13 when he calls the magistrates of the cities, ministers of God.
We all have different beliefs on many things. Religion, politics, how we should raise our kids, etc..... this should not be put on here.