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I'll have to correct you on this. Jesus was making a reference to them being Israelite Judges, I think you've forgotten, that John 10:34 is a quotation, Jesus is quoting the OT. This is evident since he said "Is it not written in your Law"just before saying "you are gods".
No, my typing didn't quite convey what I meant. It can happen when you have a newborn and you get distracted. I'll be more precise: Jesus was not referring to older Israelite judges, rather he was referring to the Pharisees, who were the current Israelite judges. No dispute that he is targeting the Pharisees, I hope?
Jesus was making a point stating that they were these gods.
Again, then Jesus makes no sense. If Jesus was calling them false judges then it makes no sense it relation to what the Jews were saying to him. If the Jews were accusing Jesus of being God, capital G, then how does a response of "are you not false gods" make sense.
How did you get "false judges" out of that? This is very simple. I'll answer your thought process step by step, maybe it will help:
Q: If the Jews were accusing Jesus of being God, capital G, ....
A: Technically, they were accusing him of impersonating God, or taking liberties that only belonged to God. Actually accusing him of being God would have taken faith and comprehension beyond where they were at.
Jesus was NOT making a separate statement he was ANSWERING them, they were accusing him of something and he was making a response in relation to that accusation, John 10:34 "Jesus answered them". Jesus answering to them "you are false gods" makes no sense ...
Christ's answer makes perfect sense.
They say that he makes himself God, and he does not deny the charge. He says that he is their judge, the God that judges among the Gods. Jesus judges them, as God with a capital G.
Their accusation of blasphemy is irrelevant against God Himself. What's wrong with your estimation of the situation is that Jesus somehow needed to protect himself from the Pharisees, as if he had a reason to be
scared of them. This is the same Jesus that beheld Satan fall from heaven like lightning! This is the same Jesus that made the world. This is the same Jesus that says, before Abraham,
I AM.
The Jews accusation: You Jesus make yourself God.
Jesus answer: Are you not false Gods?
Jesus answer to them makes no sense when viewed your way.
Of course your hypothetical version above makes no sense. He didn't say they were "pagan" gods. He said they were those gods, the corrupt princes who would die like men, that he would judge at the end of the world when he inherited the nations.
If the Jews said this "We are stoning you..for you, although being a man, make yourself God a god" and Jesus replied "are you not gods" then it makes perfect sense, since its clear that Jesus was comparing himself to a divinely appointment person that those judges spoken of in Psalms 82:1,6 were. Viewing the scripture in any other way makes Jesus stupid.
No, your version makes Jesus a little god that is a corrupt judge that will "die like men, and fall like one of the princes." Maybe you're forgetting this, but Jesus ROSE, and will inherit all nations. The GOD that judges among the gods, of verse 8.
Again please answer me, how does Jesus "answer" of "are you not false gods" answer the charge for blasphemny. Remember the scripture states Jesus was "answering them", thus you need to explain how you interpretation makes sense in relation to the accusation and the answer Jesus gave.
He one upped them.
He did not deny that He made himself GOD, he PROVED that he made himself God, and told them that He would be judging them.
Are you forgetting how they reacted to the answer?
They picked up stones again to stone him. If he had denied being God, and made himself a "little g" there would have been no stones. Jesus was NOT a Jehovah's Witness, Jesus was Jehovah in the flesh.
This Circular and relying on a false premise to support your point. God is immune to charges of blasphemy but the scriptures state Jesus was "answering" the charge, ..
It does answer it. He isn't under their jurisdiction, and that's exactly what he said. You may not be familiar with this, but no matter what you are charged in a court of law, a challenge to the jurisdiction must be answered first. God is not to be judged by men, rather God judges men. You've somehow got in your mind that Jesus needed to play by their rules.
He who raised the dead plays by His own rules and with His timing.
No he didn't, you have to be illietrate to claim such a thing, Jesus was making a claim that he was Gods son, not God.
The Son of God is God manifest in the flesh. See Paul's writings in Hebrews when he describes what it means to be made like unto "the Son of God." Without beginning or end of days, abiding continually. Paul's an actual Jew and understands what the term means, better than someone born 2000 years too late, in a country on the other side of the globe.
