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Welcome to Day 1461 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomArguments for a 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 1461 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.
Arguments for a Divine Council\xb7\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Segment 12: Polytheism: Are The Gods Real?
Denying the Reality of the elohim as gods mocks God
Now, aside from trajectories that sort of try to blunt or strip away the supernatural element of the plural elohim, the plural sons of God in the Old Testament, by making them idols or making them people, when we dispense with that, that brings us to a certain set of issues that we have to address. If it\u2019s not those other things, then it must be divine beings. Then typically, what\u2019s asked is, well, maybe this is just sort of imaginative. Perhaps the gods, these other elohim just aren\u2019t real at all.
Biblical Writers Had a Supernatural Worldview
How do we handle that? Because these are biblical writers writing things about these other elohim. Now, we as modern people, we sort of reflexively go to this question, and we sort of assign unreality to these beings. A biblical writer would not do this. A biblical writer is predisposed to supernaturalism. That\u2019s why the Unseen Realm has its subtitle: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible.
Then you might say, \u201cWell, if you are going to say that these gods are real (and I do because the biblical writers do), isn\u2019t that polytheism? Then what about these phrases about \u2018there is no other God besides Yahweh of Israel,\u2019 \u2018besides Him there is no other,\u2019 these sorts of phrases?\u201d\xa0
Denying Reality of the Elohim Mocks GodSo this is the territory that we need to cover now. What we\u2019ve already established has God\u2019s members of His council as spirit beings. There are other ways to discern that and discern God\u2019s relationship to them. I would suggest this. We\u2019ll start here: that if you are going to deny that the other elohim, the members of God\u2019s council, if you\u2019re going to say they are not real, then doing that actually mocks God because God is going to be described as being above these other elohim, as being the elohim of elohim, the God of gods.
If those beings don\u2019t really exist, there is no glory for God to be had there. In fact, it...