The question is:
"Are we all the offsprings of God?"
The answer: The bible as a whole makes it plain we are not offsprings of GOD.
Now look I am not attacking anyones beliefs. But let us approach the Text of Scripture that addresses this topic, in light of Scripture. And get The "Truth" in what it is actually saying and why it is address by scripture.
I will address
two portions of scriptures i think needs to be address 1st. I waited for others to bring to attention no one did..
1.
Paul never claim or
"GOD" never claim or
the Bible, but "JESUS" might have implied it to be so, for a reason, that we are offsprings of "god". But The Bible and GOD have proclaim we are a creation of GOD. And that is
"Indicative".
The song "Psalms" 82 was wrote by a man name "ASAPH" who works for David, i believe a chief song writer a "Levi". Let us say he is no different from the gifted song writers we have today. He wrote as he felt, and just because a "Psalmists" or a "Poet" writes songs or poetry that is in the bible does not mean they are "theological correct". And they makes that clear. we know that as readers of "Holy Scripture" this is not new to us.
Remember there are no verses in The Original Text of Scripture. and no sentence breaks continue flow of words are not separated by spaces. Hebrew, written starting from the right going left.
Now this is a song, Psalms 82: "ASAPH" singing this to himself: in the song "
GOD said none of these words "ASAPH" Song these words not "GOD" and neither was He "Prophesying">
A Psalm of Asaph.
1God takes His stand in His own congregation;
He judges in the midst of the rulers.
2How long will you judge unjustly,
And show partiality to the wicked? Selah.
3Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
4Rescue the weak and needy;
Deliver
them out of the hand of the wicked.
5They do not know nor do they understand;
They walk about in darkness;
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6I SAID, “You are gods,
And all of you are sons of the Most High.
7“Nevertheless you will die like men,
And fall like any one of the princes.”
8Arise, O God, judge the earth!
This is a man singing this!
And Paul and Jesus knew the The Religious Leaders would get the interpretations wrong, like they do all the Scriptures and they used it sometimes against them as a Good Teacher of The LAW would. Jesus and Apostle PAUL had been doing this kind of thing all through the BOOK. When you read the book you cannot but laugh how they used The Religious Leaders view of the LAW against them. "Are Not you A expert of The LAW and You do not know these things"
I would be reading the Bible i would laugh out loud. Look at this. ...It is all in the book. PAUL and JESUS, you cannot help but laugh. [Psalms 82 nothing but a song by a song writer and expressing his opinion and how he feels about the matter, in his human understanding, he is "Another religious" leader.
Have some of you learn how to read the Bible sections and what they are?
1. Old testament
2' The Law
3. History
4. Poetry and Wisdom [songs} and Poets,,
[ALL Those who wrote on these saying was not necessary believers but they were wise.] Like Moses "father-in=law" concerning the wisdom books.
Ok, now getting to Paul in the book of ACTS, I am laughing because Paul was slick, he was smooth, He was a expert in The LAW He was a lawyer all the way!
(Acts: 17) note how he says this, he knows them , he has been watching them, listening to them,He knows how they act. he was studying them, In Athens, Mars Hill, The PARTHENON, The Areopagus with Those Epicureans of the Stoics, "Poets",Philosophers, you know those smart, they know everything, Paul is going to give "Thomas AGUINAS": and PloughBOY and many others a "Type and Shadow" they will need one day when they get surrounded by those high educated Lawyers.
Athens Greece, Top of The Line. He is going trip them up, with some of their thoughts they think they know, So he can make his move. When you read them and how they work things out how they spoke, you know JESUS taught PAUL. The stuff they be pulling with those Jewish leaders.
(Acts 17) The trick is to convince them, they are on the right track, and acting like he is their friend, and in agreement with some of their thinking. Braking the ice.
22And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects.
23“For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
24“The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;
25neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all life and breath and all things;
26and He made from one, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined
their appointed times, and the boundaries of their habitation,
27that they should seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
28for in Him
we live and move and exist, as even
some of your own poets have said,
‘FOR WE ALSO ARE HIS OFFSPRING.’ 29“
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.
30“Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all everywhere should repent,
31because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.”
He is slick! He got them, making them believe the UNKNOWN GOD and His GOD is The SAME GOD, and "THEIR POETS" have been talking about HIM ALL THE TIME. and they are little gods, he is breaking the ice and reeling them in. "Jesus said: Follow me and I will make you Fisherman of MEN":
You must know how to read "Scripture" GOD has design it with a sense of "ART". the Bible is not dull, I have laugh so much, just by reading the bible than i have laugh about anything in my life. I have heard our Father it seems he has said: I am going to show you something. read this, i start reading a book in the Bible, and just keep reading and for get why i was reading and in the story a light would come on! And I would burst out laughing. And it would seem he the father would enjoy seeing me laughing. My wife use to say only time you laugh is when you read that Bible, I have preach this story on occasions Concerning "MARS HILL" The Epicureans who where the Disciples of Epicurus, The Stoics were the disciples of ZENO. Any time a good translation use and spell "GOD" with small caps, it means refers to a pagan god. a poor cheap translation does not discern between the two Renderings most of the time.
Now referring to Jesus about this topic. it is similar the same approach. And we must give attention to the writers view and how he documented it.
(John 10)BSB
…“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be
God.” Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’? If he called them
gods to whom the word of
God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—…
Referring to "PSALMS 82" ASAPH the song writer said. But GOD did not say that. ASAPH said.
"I have said you are gods"
Ok, no one address this, i did.
And i am going to sleep. and if i made typo's sorry.
