Wednesday 16 March 2022

Monotheism 2

In Psalm 82 verse.  God says to the divine council, " You are Gods, sons of the most high, all of you. " Why does God not say, you are MY sons? The God mentioned first is presumably YHVH, so could the Most High actually be the actual creator God? I might be reading too much in to it but as someone who has an avid interest in Gnosticism, what I have just written, to me, fits in with the unknowable creator God is Most High, and the lower demiurgic God YHVH. 
To continue with the divine council narrative, I have been thinking on where the divine council met. Maybe they convened in the garden of Eden which brings me to Adam and Eve. Obviously, Adam and Eve were not the only humans on the planet but, could Adam and Eve have been created to be intermediaries between humans and the divine realm? The fact that they were both tempted to disobey God's law by what is misconstrued as a serpent somewhat ruined the plan. Michael Heiser says that the serpent wasn't actually an animal but a divine being, unhappy about mere humans having an influence in the divine council. He links the rebellious being to Lucifer. 
I will try and expand on this.

Thursday 10 March 2022

Monotheism?

Recently I have been looking at videos by Michael Heiser, an American biblical scholar. He has a podcast, the named The Naked Bible podcast, It was when he mentioned Psalm 82 verse one which reads, " God takes his place in the divine council, In the midst of the Gods he holds judgement. " It was the use of the plural, God's, that surprised me. To my mind and to what I was used to was always the word God, singular. It was then that I remembered the second commandment, " thou shall have no other Gods before me. "
God is actually letting us know that there are indeed other Gods. Michael Heiser said that Psalm 82 gave him food for thought as he hadn't been taught and hadn't realised the passage was there. He mentions all this in his book Unseen Realm, I haven't read it yet but I will in the near future. My take on it is that it makes me want to find out all I can about the beliefs of the early Israelites and related tribes. 
I will probably update this in the future.