Again the Jewish opposition picked up stones in order to stone him. Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of those works do you stone me?” The Jewish opposition answered, “We don’t stone you for a good work but for insulting God. You are human, yet you make yourself out to be God.” Jesus replied, “Isn’t it written in your Law, I have said, you are gods? Scripture calls those to whom God’s word came gods, and scripture can’t be abolished. So how can you say that the one whom the Father has made holy and sent into the world insults God because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’? If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. But if I do them, and you don’t believe me, believe the works so that you can know and recognize that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” Again, they wanted to arrest him, but he escaped from them. Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had baptized at first, and he stayed there. Many people came to him. “John didn’t do any miraculous signs,” they said, “but everything John said about this man was true.” Many believed in Jesus there. (John 10:31-42, CEB)
Jesus replied to their questioning, “Isn’t it written in your Law, I have said, you are gods? Scripture calls those to whom God’s word came gods, and scripture can’t be abolished.”
Where does it say this in the Law? It says it in Psalm 82:6. This verse is, “I hereby declare, “You are gods, children of the Most High—all of you!”” (CEB).
But is the Psalter in the Law? Actually, the Psalter is part of what is known as Ketuvim or writings in the Hebrew Scripture and not a part of the Torah, the Law.
But the point is we are all gods. We are all God’s children and therefore gods. And our lives should speak to the love and grace of God.
So live so your life speaks love.
Loving People. Loving God.
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