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It is possible, as many scholars believe, that when the psalmist Asaph said to the unjust judges, “You are gods,” he was speaking in irony. He was saying, “I have called you ‘gods,’ but in fact you will die like the men that you really are.” If this is so, then when Jesus alluded to this psalm in John 10, he was saying that what the Israelite judges were called in irony and in judgment, he is in reality. Jesus was giving a defense for his own deity, not an argument for the deification of man.<ref>Norman L. Geisler and Ron Rhodes, When Cultists Ask: a Popular Handbook on Cultic Misinterpretations (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1997), 21–22.</ref> | It is possible, as many scholars believe, that when the psalmist Asaph said to the unjust judges, “You are gods,” he was speaking in irony. He was saying, “I have called you ‘gods,’ but in fact you will die like the men that you really are.” If this is so, then when Jesus alluded to this psalm in John 10, he was saying that what the Israelite judges were called in irony and in judgment, he is in reality. Jesus was giving a defense for his own deity, not an argument for the deification of man.<ref>Norman L. Geisler and Ron Rhodes, When Cultists Ask: a Popular Handbook on Cultic Misinterpretations (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1997), 21–22.</ref> | ||
In John 20:17, Jesus asks Mary Magdalene to go and tell the disciples that "I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Jn 20:17.</ref> | |||
Notice that in the Gospels, Jesus does not say, “Our Father,” except in the Lord’s Prayer when he’s telling us how to pray? | |||
Jesus doesn’t say, “Our Father.” He says, “My Father and your Father, my God and your God,” to try to show you something you must be careful of. We’re adopted into the family of God, but that doesn’t mean we actually come into the godhead. It doesn’t mean we actually get absorbed and become God.<ref>Timothy J. Keller, The Timothy Keller Sermon Archive (New York City: Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2013).</ref> | |||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||