John 10.33-36
33. The Jews answered Him, 'For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You being a Man make Yourself out to be GOD.'
34. Jesus answered them, 'Has it not been written in your Law, 'I said, *you are gods'?
Psalm 82.6
6."I said, 'You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High."
35. If He called them *gods to whom the Word of GOD came, the Scripture cannot be broken.
36. Do you say of Him, Whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of GOD'?
~ 34-35. "You are gods." (Psalms 58.1, 82.1.6-7, 84.7, (97.7 KSB, NRSV), 136.2, 138.1. NRSV) (Job 41.9.25. NRSV) (Deuteronomy 32.43. NRSV) (John 10.34-35).
~ 34-36. See also parallel theme: "you are sons of GOD." (John 10.34-36, 12.36) (Psalm 82.6).
Why the leaders of Israel were so angry with Christ when He let them know that He is the Son of GOD? If ordinary human beings can be called as the sons and the daughters of GOD, why not He can be called in the same way? Above all He is the true Son of GOD very First Son, First born of GOD.
In a certain sense we are gods too. GOD Father created for Himself a Son and He became the Son of GOD. Son of GOD created the world by the power of His Father and whole humankind, and humans became children of GOD, the sons and the daughters of GOD.
If humans are created in the Image of GOD, subsequently they are also gods in this respect, because they are born of GOD.
In nature every kind of living things on the ground and in the water produces their own kind and they are not mix. So those who are born of GOD in His Image also to be considered as gods, but of different kind, lesser gods.
GOD father gave His Son Jesus powers to do and to create things. Jesus in His turn gave His powers to His disciples to do the same things that He does by the power of His Father.
In the Bible we can see quite a number of instances in which human beings, mostly prophets of GOD, conducted extraordinary things and miracles acting like GOD Himself.
So, according to explanation of Jesus and statements from the Scripture the leaders of Israel have been wrong and mistaken when they got angry at Jesus, they do not understand the Scripture and took the simple fact for the blasphemy.
Of course, Jesus is not the same as His Father, and we are not the same as Jesus, but all of as belong to a single kind of creatures related only to GOD among all other creations on Earth. Spiritually and intellectually, we are the Image of GOD, physically we are image of Adam and Eve, the earthly people made from the substance of earth.
Even in our physical form we are created in such way that we are capable to create many different things. The animals and other living creature are not capable of any creativity, and by this thought alone we can be considered as gods to them if we compare ourselves to other living creatures of Earth.
The transformation for mortal sons and daughters of GOD, for those who deserve it and worthy of it, will be to become immortal spirit - the angel of GOD, after physical death (Matthew 22.23-30) (Mark 12.18-25) (Luke 20.27-36).
33. The Jews answered Him, 'For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You being a Man make Yourself out to be GOD.'
34. Jesus answered them, 'Has it not been written in your Law, 'I said, *you are gods'?
Psalm 82.6
6."I said, 'You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High."
35. If He called them *gods to whom the Word of GOD came, the Scripture cannot be broken.
36. Do you say of Him, Whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of GOD'?
~ 34-35. "You are gods." (Psalms 58.1, 82.1.6-7, 84.7, (97.7 KSB, NRSV), 136.2, 138.1. NRSV) (Job 41.9.25. NRSV) (Deuteronomy 32.43. NRSV) (John 10.34-35).
~ 34-36. See also parallel theme: "you are sons of GOD." (John 10.34-36, 12.36) (Psalm 82.6).
Why the leaders of Israel were so angry with Christ when He let them know that He is the Son of GOD? If ordinary human beings can be called as the sons and the daughters of GOD, why not He can be called in the same way? Above all He is the true Son of GOD very First Son, First born of GOD.
In a certain sense we are gods too. GOD Father created for Himself a Son and He became the Son of GOD. Son of GOD created the world by the power of His Father and whole humankind, and humans became children of GOD, the sons and the daughters of GOD.
If humans are created in the Image of GOD, subsequently they are also gods in this respect, because they are born of GOD.
In nature every kind of living things on the ground and in the water produces their own kind and they are not mix. So those who are born of GOD in His Image also to be considered as gods, but of different kind, lesser gods.
GOD father gave His Son Jesus powers to do and to create things. Jesus in His turn gave His powers to His disciples to do the same things that He does by the power of His Father.
In the Bible we can see quite a number of instances in which human beings, mostly prophets of GOD, conducted extraordinary things and miracles acting like GOD Himself.
So, according to explanation of Jesus and statements from the Scripture the leaders of Israel have been wrong and mistaken when they got angry at Jesus, they do not understand the Scripture and took the simple fact for the blasphemy.
Of course, Jesus is not the same as His Father, and we are not the same as Jesus, but all of as belong to a single kind of creatures related only to GOD among all other creations on Earth. Spiritually and intellectually, we are the Image of GOD, physically we are image of Adam and Eve, the earthly people made from the substance of earth.
Even in our physical form we are created in such way that we are capable to create many different things. The animals and other living creature are not capable of any creativity, and by this thought alone we can be considered as gods to them if we compare ourselves to other living creatures of Earth.
The transformation for mortal sons and daughters of GOD, for those who deserve it and worthy of it, will be to become immortal spirit - the angel of GOD, after physical death (Matthew 22.23-30) (Mark 12.18-25) (Luke 20.27-36).
