LOL!! I am not the one that can't read!! You guys are not interested in the actual meaning of words and phrases--esp. Jewish ones. Whenever anyone disagrees with you just call them liars and say they make things up!! It never occurs to you that it is you JS and his so called prophets that are making things up and lying to you! As you will find out one day and it will b e too late!! It is not truth you want--but affirmation that your JS was really a prophet of God---he was not and had no idea of what the Jews were talking about!
Jews were constantly backsliding and getting into idolatry. They had spent 400 years with the Egyptians and all their gods and they were surrounded by nations that had many pagan gods. The concept of God being the most high is that He is the only real, true God amongst all those pagan ones---not that there really are other gods.
I like the translation אֱלֹהִים as 'Power' or 'Powerful Ones.' That covers the different possible meanings of G-d, false gods, powerful people or angels. Those who are either powerful or are falsely thought to be powerful in this world.
In a Kabbalistic sense when G-d is referred to as אֱלֹהִים that represents G-d acting within nature, while Y-H-V-H represents G-d transcending nature.
Psalm 82 poetically plays on the different meanings of אֱלֹהִים to exhort judges to judge properly and support the weak and poor rather than favoring the rich and powerful. Here is my non-literal translation.
G-d 'stands' in the midst of judges and will judge them.
How long will you (bad) judges favor the wicked? Give justice to the weak, the orphan and the poor. Rescue the needy and powerless from the hands of the wicked.
They (corrupt judges) do not know nor do they understand that they walk in darkness.
I thought all judges were G-dly and powerful sons of the most High (i.e. good and righteous) But like all men, even powerful princes you will die.
Please G-d judge the world, you control all the nations.
This has been posted several times and you ignore it so you can believe whatever you want. I don't make things up---I don't need to. God deals in reality, not fiction.
You said: "he was not and had no idea of what the Jews were talking about!" I believe that God has revealed these things in our day so that we will be better prepared to meet Him. I know that you like to replace the word God with judges claiming that was what was meant. However it was the pre-mortal Christ that said:
(Old Testament | Psalms 82:1 - 8)
1 GOD standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
Jesus verified this when He said:
(New Testament | John 10:34)
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law,
I said, Ye are gods?
So let us use the word judges:
(New Testament | John 10:34 - 36)
4 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are judges?
35 If he called them judges, unto whom the word of judge 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 judge?
The word judge does not work in place of God, therefore it is also wrong to use it in Psalms 82 of the Old Testament. The Greek has a different word for Judge, so when Jesus used the word God it meant God.
