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In John 10:30, Jesus says “I and the Father are one.” Some of the Jews who heard him say this felt he was being blasphemous in equating himself with God, and they were ready to stone him. Jesus in John 10:34, in explaining his statement, says “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?”
The passage he is said to have referred to is Psalms 82:6 which says, “You are gods,
sons of the Most High, all of you...” The inference he made to those Jews, then, is that it is not beyond the reach of the Scriptures that as there are other gods, Jesus is one of them.
In the context of reading John 3:16-17, Jesus as a god is the son of the Most High who was sent to save us.
After reading Psalms 82, the idea that there would be other gods up there aside from God himself was rather disturbing, since from our standpoint there is only one God, with Jesus being a part of. But God in his Second Commandment lays to rest as to who is in charge when He says in Exodus 20:3, “You shall have no other gods before me.” So presumably, that includes the other gods that are with Him, except for Jesus who as the son is one with God.
We should be careful of whom we accuse of blasphemy, since blasphemy involves asserting that God stands for something that, from reading the Scriptures, He clearly doesn’t. So, with that understanding, it was nonsense for the Jews in John 10:36 to accuse Jesus of Blasphemy no matter how you look at it, since he clearly quoted part of the Scriptures which acknowledges the existence of other gods in God’s midst.
Safe to say that for all intents and purposes, those other gods at least have the standing of angels in God’s midst, which in turn brings a new meaning to Hebrews 13:2 which says, “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have ENTERTAINED ANGELS UNAWARES.” The Jews who were ready to stone Jesus, who as the one son of God has a higher ranking than an angel, didn’t exactly show any hospitality to him. (And let’s be clear at this point that aside from the Jews who wanted to stone Jesus, there were Jews who became Jesus’ first disciples and believers.)
In a sense, it’s a lesson to be learned for when we are first approached by strangers from other lands.
The passage he is said to have referred to is Psalms 82:6 which says, “You are gods,
sons of the Most High, all of you...” The inference he made to those Jews, then, is that it is not beyond the reach of the Scriptures that as there are other gods, Jesus is one of them.
In the context of reading John 3:16-17, Jesus as a god is the son of the Most High who was sent to save us.
After reading Psalms 82, the idea that there would be other gods up there aside from God himself was rather disturbing, since from our standpoint there is only one God, with Jesus being a part of. But God in his Second Commandment lays to rest as to who is in charge when He says in Exodus 20:3, “You shall have no other gods before me.” So presumably, that includes the other gods that are with Him, except for Jesus who as the son is one with God.
We should be careful of whom we accuse of blasphemy, since blasphemy involves asserting that God stands for something that, from reading the Scriptures, He clearly doesn’t. So, with that understanding, it was nonsense for the Jews in John 10:36 to accuse Jesus of Blasphemy no matter how you look at it, since he clearly quoted part of the Scriptures which acknowledges the existence of other gods in God’s midst.
Safe to say that for all intents and purposes, those other gods at least have the standing of angels in God’s midst, which in turn brings a new meaning to Hebrews 13:2 which says, “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have ENTERTAINED ANGELS UNAWARES.” The Jews who were ready to stone Jesus, who as the one son of God has a higher ranking than an angel, didn’t exactly show any hospitality to him. (And let’s be clear at this point that aside from the Jews who wanted to stone Jesus, there were Jews who became Jesus’ first disciples and believers.)
In a sense, it’s a lesson to be learned for when we are first approached by strangers from other lands.
