Trying to be sensible about doctrine.
I woke up yesterday with a strong urge to write about the possible means of “you are all gods”. So this is what I am doing. It is found in Psalm 82:6 (thus the title).
In John 10:31-39, Jesus is recorded as saying “Is it not written, ye are all gods?” I am going to explore the source of this quote. I will lay out the different ways the psalm could be understood and then see which ones fit with the way Jesus used it.
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Is it okay for Christians to question God? Asking questions is often cited as a sign of intelligence. We see several examples in the Bible that seem to suggest it is. Should we place God (and leaders) beyond the scope of our challenge?
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Yeshua and other variants on the name of Jesus.
In the west, we use the name, Jesus. We do so with such consistency that it is often overlooked that Jesus was not His name back then. A direct rendering may have had us talking about Joshua Christ.
The Wikipedia does a surprisingly good job of explaining this:
Yeshua (ישוע, with vowel pointing יֵשׁוּעַ – yēšūă‘ in Hebrew) was a common alternative form of the name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (“Yehoshua” – Joshua) in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the Second Temple period. The name corresponds to the Greek spelling Iesous, from which, through the Latin Iesus, comes the English spelling Jesus.
The variation in name pronunciation does not stop there.
In English, the name Yeshua is extensively used by followers of Messianic Judaism, whereas East Syrian Christian denominations use the name Isho in order to preserve the Aramaic or Syriac name of Jesus.
Regardless of if you know Him as Isho, Jesus, Yeshua, Iesous, Yehoshua, or even Joshua, this is the exact same messiah (anointed one) that we are talking about.