The Hikers Path (Journal)

‘I am God, and there is none else; I am God and there is none like me,’
(Isaiah 46:9)

While listening to a Cadmans Call CD that I was given, this verse came to mind from my reading the previous day. The verse essentially shows the Lord stating that He is God and there are no other gods… It matters not whether they are uppercase or lowercase, the Lord does not share his Godship with any other… well, outside the trinity This would mean that all else called ‘god’ would be an idol, or some thing/thought/being that the hand of man created.

Now, before you hang me as a heretic, these are thoughts only… thoughts you are free to comment on, but consider the following: The bible notes the children of Israel as ‘gods’ in Psalm 82:6 and Jesus reminds them of this in John 10. I have only ever read this one way, and that is to say that these people are indeed gods themselves. But take a look at the verse for a moment ‘I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.’

The Hebrew word ‘gods’ here, though lowercase, is Elohiym. This is the name given to the great I AM, so what could this mean? Trust me I am no scholar of Greek or Hebrew, but couldn’t this mean that those spoken of were special works or possessions of God? When reading the text in Psalm 82 and John 10 again with this in mind, the sentences hold true and the scripture in Isaiah stands firm that there is none else! It is for this reason that I am not entirely certain that they are gods, as much as they belong to the Lord as ‘children of the most High’, the rest of the verse. Much the same, Christ in John 10 made the claim to be the Son of God, which he indeed was, but points out that they were ‘children of the most High’ also.

If then there are truly no other gods, whether inferior or not, it could bring light to the usage of this term in scripture. If each time the term is used in lowercase to describe Baal, Ashtaroth, or a host of others and there are no other gods, then these are not gods either but invisible idols.

I am certainly going to have to think on this some more…