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Welcome to Day 1441 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomObjections \u2013 The Trinity and Idols are not God\u2019s Divine Council \u2013 Worldview WednesdayWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.\xa0Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.\xa0Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. Today is Day 1441 of our Trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday.\xa0Creating a Biblical Worldview is essential to have a proper perspective on today\u2019s current events.\xa0To establish a Biblical Worldview, you must have a proper understanding of God and His Word.\xa0This week, on our Worldview Wednesday episode, we will continue with our study based on a course I recently completed taught by Dr. Michael Heiser. Our study is titled \u201cSons and Daughters of God: The Believer\u2019s Identity, Calling, and Destiny\u201d Throughout this multi-week course we will demonstrate that, in the Old Testament, \u201csons of God\u201d and \u201choly ones\u201d refers to supernatural beings whose Father is God and who work with God to carry out His will and that this divine family was present before humanity. By fully engaging with biblical texts such as Psalm 82; Psalm 89, and Deuteronomy 32:8\u20139, our study will show that this divine family functions as a template for God\u2019s human family. God desires of humans, as His imagers, to participate in His council. This study addresses issues such as polytheism, the nature of the (little \u2018g\u2019) \u201cgods,\u201d and the uniqueness of Yahweh. Within this study, we will apply insights to the New Testament texts and shows how the metaphor of being in God\u2019s family informs our sense of identity and mission as believers.


Objections Part 1\xb7\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Segment 5: TrinityImpossibility of Elohim as Trinity in Psalm 82


Now, as we go through these questions, I think we\u2019ll see that none of them are really very complicated, although some are easier to see the answer than others. Let\u2019s take the question about the Trinity first. Are the plural elohim references of Psalm 82, for instance, references to the Trinity?


Well, if we are talking about Psalm 82 and its council, which, of course, is drawn on by Psalm 89 and other passages that we\u2019ll see as we go on, Psalm 82 actually forbids the idea that this could be speaking of the Trinity. Let\u2019s take a look at the psalm itself and just read through it. Verse 1:


God has taken his place in the divine council;


in the midst of the gods, he holds judgment:


\u201cHow long will you judge unjustly


and show partiality to the wicked? Selah


Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;


maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.


Rescue the weak and the needy;


deliver them from the hand of the wicked.\u201d


They have neither knowledge nor understanding,


they walk about in darkness;


all the foundations of the earth are shaken.


I said, \u201cYou are gods,


sons of the Most High, all of you;


nevertheless, like men you shall die,


and fall like any prince.\u201d


Arise, O God, judge the earth;


for you shall inherit all the nations!


That\u2019s the entire psalm, and what\u2019s the point? Well, the plural elohim from verse 1 that God is addressing in this council are really getting a reprimand from God because they are wicked, and they are corrupt.


Divine Rebellion


We get a little sense of what the point is by the last line, \u201cArise O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!\u201d Now, it would take a whole other course to explain divine rebellion in the history of the Old Testament and Old Testament theology. Still, one of those rebellions has to do with what happened at the Tower of Babel.