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'You Are Gods'
Jesus stunned
His listeners in proclaiming His own divine identity. But He went even further,
quoting a verse that tells human beings, "You are gods." Indeed,
as many passages show, God is a family.
by Tom Robinson
In the last article in this series we saw that the Jews of Jesus' day accused Him of blasphemy for claiming to be the Son of God: "Because You, being a Man, make Yourself God" (John 10:33).
His response is intriguing: "Jesus answered them, 'Is it not written in your law (in Psalm 82:6), "I said, 'You are gods'"?; If He (God) called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 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"?;'" (John 10:34-36).
In other words, said Christ, "if Scripture outright called human beings gods, why are you upset when I merely state that I am God's Son?"
Yet are human beings actually gods? What did He mean?
In Psalm 82:6, from which Jesus quoted, God says to human beings: "I said, 'You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High.'" The Hebrew word translated "gods" is elohim, which literally means "gods" or "mighty ones"—although it is often rendered as "God" (that is, the true God) in the Bible. That's because, although plural in form, the word elohim is often singular in usage.
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